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.
British lawyer Karim Khan elected Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
12 February 2021
by AFP
British human rights lawyer Karim Khan was elected Friday as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a politically daunting position whose incumbent was slapped with US sanctions.
11 February 2021
by Lena Bjurström
From the first war crimes trial to the first conviction of a government soldier, Sweden has been a pioneer in Europe in the prosecution of crimes committed in Syria. Today, the Swedish Public Prosecutor's Office remains a leader, [...]
9 February 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
With lot of expectations, a notorious member of a ‘Special Operations Unit’ involved in allegations of torture under Yahya Jammeh’s rule, appeared before the Gambian Truth Commission. Allegedly, Lamin Darboe arrested at least 115 [...]
8 February 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
If no consensus is found today there will be a vote. This Monday, the States Parties to the International Criminal Court meet again virtually to decide which of the top three candidates left in a gruelling contest will be the cour [...]
5 February 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
ICC: How to interpret Ongwen's conviction?
Fully responsible and guilty. Yesterday, on February 4th, seventeen years after the Ugandan authorities asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the northern Ugandan conflict, former Lord's Resistance Army commander D [...]
5 February 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian and Yazidi trials: why victims’ lawyers want sexual violence considered
Two landmark trials in Germany have been dealing with crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Syria and Iraq. So far, they have not focused on sexual and gender-based violence. Civil party lawyers in both Koble [...]
4 February 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC trial of Dominic Ongwen: Are the spirits there?
The International Criminal Court is to hand down its judgment today February 4 in the case of Ugandan rebel Dominic Ongwen, a former member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Belief in spirits has been central to the arguments o [...]
4 February 2021
by AFP
ICC finds Ongwen fully responsible of his crimes as a LRA commander
The Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander is fully responsible. “The chamber did not find evidence for the claim by the defence that he suffered from any mental disease or that he committed the crimes under [...]
2 February 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
A first in Colombia: eight FARCs charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity
Last Thursday, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace announced its first major decision, accusing eight top leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in what has be [...]
1 February 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Universal jurisdiction: the Finnish revolution
The trial of Gibril Massaquoi opens today in Finland, hardly two years after the opening of an investigation into this former Sierra Leonean warlord. It has been done in record time and is a revolution in universal jurisdiction, a [...]
29 January 2021
by Tina Burjaliani
The European Court and the 2008 war: why Georgia should be pleased, and Russia sorry
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a long-awaited judgment on Georgia’s second ‘interstate’ case against Russian Federation. The case was aimed at getting Russia condemned for its military aggression in August [...]
28 January 2021
by Franck Petit
ICC Victims Fund: Waiting for Godot in Georgia
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 6 Georgia was the first place outside the African continent selected by the International Criminal Court for investigation. Twelve years after the 2008 war, the small Caucasian country is still wait [...]
26 January 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
ICC: a look back at the last Assembly of the States Parties
With this new podcast, you will be able to look back at the latest Assembly of States Parties, that you may have missed or followed with a little too much distance, due to the pandemic, thanks to two keen International Criminal Co [...]
26 January 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
ICC investigations: what prosecutor Bensouda leaves behind
Last December, the International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the list of countries her office had set as priorities. Which preliminary examinations are prolonged as such, which ones are turned into full inve [...]
25 January 2021
by Gaël Grilhot
Central African Republic: a warning from the ICC
After being arrested in the Central African Republic on January 20, Mahamat Saïd was transferred last night to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The story of this veteran Central African rebel spans more than a decade [...]
21 January 2021
by AFP
France/Algeria: towards a "truth and memory" commission?
It is "a process of recognition" but "there is no question of repentance" and "apologising", said the office of the French president. On 20 January, Emmanuel Macron received a report by the historian Benjamin Stora on the colonisa [...]
21 January 2021
by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Victims Fund: Who’s responsible for its failure? (Everybody)
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 5 As shown in previous articles, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has not delivered on its mandate. By 2020, less than 300 victims have received reparations in only one ICC [...]
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21 January 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
The failure of the ICC Victims Fund
For more than 15 years, the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has constantly reviewed its plans, strategy and modus operandi. The result is a clear failure. Its budget is opaque. Its concrete actions [...]