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.
Church is obstructing justice for clerical child abuse, say UN experts
19 July 2021
by Julia Crawford
Last month, the United Nations made public that four of their special human rights rapporteurs have complained to the Vatican about the lack of accountability for perpetrators of child abuse and reparation for victims. They called [...]
16 July 2021
by By Mustapha K. Darboe
On July 14, Yankuba Touray was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The former Minister of Local Government in the early days of Gambia’s military junta is the first former senior member of Yahya Jammeh’s regime to be tr [...]
15 July 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Twenty years after their invasion, US troops are leaving Afghanistan, and the Talibans are back, controlling 85% of the country already. For the many Afghan victims and rights activists, the situation looks hopeless. From all side [...]
15 July 2021
by Gaëlle Ponselet
What was supposed to be preliminary work lasting two to three months has taken a year. Some dozen experts were given a mandate from the special commission on Belgium’s colonial past to chart the main outlines of that historical pe [...]
13 July 2021
by Stephanie van den Berg
Dutch war crimes in Afghanistan: The Australian trigger
An Australian probe has dented the Dutch wall of silence about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan more than ten years ago. Stories from Dutch Afghanistan veterans have begun to surface in the media. It has also boosted a long-runni [...]
12 July 2021
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Caught killing on camera in Deir ez-Zor
On July 2, Dutch prosecutors demanded a 27-year prison sentence for Ahmad Al Khedr for a single war crime and participation in a terrorist group in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. At the heart of the case is the execution of a Syrian officer, [...]
9 July 2021
by Janet Anderson
Colonial Crimes: The empire on which justice (almost) never sets
The British empire was the largest in history and it encompassed many colonial crimes. But the UK has been slow and timid in adjusting to contemporary demands for reparations, apologies, and restitution. And while there is no esca [...]
8 July 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian trial in Germany: the role of doctors and hospitals in the Assad regime’s prison system
In the Al-Khatib trial in Koblenz, Germany, a doctor testified about treating prisoners in the Syrian Secret Service’s Branch 251. He reported severe injuries, and deaths on an almost daily basis. But while he was tasked with impr [...]
6 July 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Government and Truth Commission clash over Jammeh’s Arch
The “Arch 22” is an imposing monument built by Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh to the glory of his “revolution”. The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission wants to make it a memorial to Jammeh’s victims. But the g [...]
5 July 2021
by Tatiana Chemali
Guatemala’s ‘Diario Militar’ case: desperate times call for precautionary measures
It has taken more than 20 years for proceedings to begin in the ‘Diario Militar’ – or death-squad diary – case following Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. While the recent arrest of senior and mid-level officials marks a promis [...]
2 July 2021
by Janet H. Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
Between pride and apologies, the Dutch are not yet ready to repair
Across the flat Dutch landscape there are mixed signals when it comes to dealing with colonial crimes. On one hand court cases, apologies from the King, and a national museum re-examining its own treasures in the light of slavery. [...]
1 July 2021
by Stephanie van den Berg
Stanisic and Simatovic: slim convictions in longest running Yugoslav trial
On June 30, a former head of Serbian state security and his subordinate were convicted for crimes in just one Bosnian town, and sentenced to 12 years in jail. But this retrial in the longest Yugoslav case before the UN court in Th [...]
29 June 2021
by Ruben Carranza and Maria Abrahamyan
Now is the time to make transitional justice possible in Armenia
Unlike in Turkey and Azerbaijan where movements seeking justice and democratization are violently suppressed, Armenians carried out a peaceful revolution in 2018. After the last parliamentary elections on 21 June and the surprisin [...]
28 June 2021
by Christine Chaumeau
New Zealand leads the way on reparations for indigenous people
New Zealand is decades ahead of other countries in dealing with its colonial past. For 40 years, under the Treaty of Waitangi, a process of reparation has allowed the Maori to be fully recognized at the political level. This is so [...]
25 June 2021
by Justice Info
Social media as new evidence in war crimes
“To my mind, the advent of social media is as big a breakthrough for evidence and legal proceedings as finger printing,” says Yvonne McDermott Rees, professor of law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law at the University of [...]
25 June 2021
by Myriam Cottias
How science can help thinking on colonial crimes reparation
The database of the "Repairs" research project on reparations, compensation and indemnities for slavery (Europe, Americas, Africa) between the 19th and 21st centuries has just been made public. Its coordinator, Myriam Cottias, exp [...]
24 June 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the day when president Santos asked for forgiveness
On Friday June 11th, former President and Nobel Peace prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos appeared before Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to ask for forgiveness for the extrajudicial executions that happened during hi [...]
22 June 2021
by Abraham Kouassi
After Gbagbo’s return, traditional leaders speak on reconciliation
Reconciliation is the word on everyone's lips since former President Laurent Gbagbo, acquitted by the International Criminal Court, returned to Côte d'Ivoire on Thursday June 17. Behind the grand spectacle of 'reconciliation', tra [...]
21 June 2021
by Antoine Harari
Switzerland: Kosiah convicted in first universal jurisdiction trial
On June 18, after three months of deliberations, judges of the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona found former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah guilty of war crimes in the first universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Switzerlan [...]