All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
6 September 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza et Claude Sengenya
A Congolese military court has released seven members of the Twa ethnic group convicted for "wicked destruction of nature" after settling in a park in the south of the country. But the struggle continues for these indigenous peopl [...]
3 September 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Over the past two weeks, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission achieved a rare feat – to sit down with all five of the country’s living presidents, with a conversation with Andrés Pastrana this Tuesday and a seemingly imp [...]
2 September 2021
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Can the hand that raised a machete to kill now raise it to bless? The rehabilitation of priests convicted for their role in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis is a controversial issue in Rwanda. Some of them half speak about their half-l [...]
31 August 2021
by The Conversation France
Restitution of the 'Benin Bronzes': "All of the global North are implicated"
A few months ago, Germany announced that it would return hundreds of priceless art objects looted during the colonial era, commonly known as 'Benin bronzes', to Nigeria. Professor Jürgen Zimmerer, a specialist in German colonial h [...]
30 August 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: The Truth Commission with feet of clay
A “Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission” was officially launched in July in Bangui, with the swearing in of its members and election of its executive body. Without facilities, without a budget and without peace [...]
26 August 2021
by Déguène Cissé and Franck Petit
Habré's death: Final blow or wake-up call for reparations?
Prior to Chadian ex-president Hissène Habré’s death on Tuesday, nothing was moving on the reparations for victims ordered after he was convicted. The seizure of his assets in Senegal has never taken place and the African Union has [...]
24 August 2021
by AFP / JusticeInfo.net
Hissène Habré: the lion of Chad is dead
He was nicknamed the lion. The former president of Chad died on 24 August, aged 79, in a Dakar hospital. Hissène Habré was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016 for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary Afri [...]
24 August 2021
by Lena Bjurström
Iran: first trial for 1988 massacres opens in Stockholm
Since August 10, a Swedish court has been trying a former Iranian official who allegedly took part in the mass executions carried out in Iranian prisons in 1988. The trial is as historic as it is politically sensitive, with new Ir [...]
23 August 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Justice still in chains for Mauritania’s slaves
August 23 is "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition”. But in Mauritania slavery persists, even though it has, under international pressure, been qualified as a crime against humanity. Some obse [...]
2 August 2021
by Justice Info
The best of Justice Info (2020-2021)
Justice Info is taking a summer break and will resume publishing on August 23. In the meantime, we bring you a selection of our best articles since September 2020. We hope you enjoy this look back at transitional justice events over the last 12 months.
30 July 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission puts a price on reparations
The final report of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, expected to be submitted today to the President of Gambia, has been postponed to September 30. Meanwhile the Commission has clarified what it has spent in r [...]
29 July 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence
Over the past few months, several mass and unmarked graves have been identified near former residential schools for indigenous children in Canada. Such institutions were created with the explicit objective of removing children fro [...]
29 July 2021
by Pascale Guéricolas
In Canada, tombs of indigenous children shake national conscience
In the last two months, Canadians have been rediscovering with shock the details of a violent past. Over more than a century, many indigenous children died in residential schools where they were forced to go for their education. T [...]
27 July 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Eduardo Cifuentes: “This dialogue between victims and perpetrators is unprecedented”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Eduardo Cifuentes President of Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Eduardo Cifuentes is the president of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the judicial arm of the transitional justice [...]
26 July 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
In new twist, Massaquoi trial to return to Liberia
There is a new twist in the trial of former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi. The Finnish court that is trying him plans to return to Liberia to hold new hearings, provided Liberian authorities agree. According to t [...]
23 July 2021
by Rachida Houssou
Colonial crimes: Benin prepares for the return of its cultural heritage
Five years after its official request for the restitution of its cultural heritage to France, Benin is getting closer to its goal. The return of 26 works looted during the colonial era has been set for 30 October. All the infrastr [...]
22 July 2021
by Lena Bjurström
In France, the lengthy Syrian investigations
Investigations on crimes in Syria are multiplying in France. They now constitute the largest number of cases handled by judicial bodies dedicated to the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But the many investiga [...]
20 July 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: 25 Army officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity
Over the past two weeks, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace announced its second batch of major decisions, accusing 25 former members of the Colombian Army of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including several high-r [...]