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.
How Biden’s America can reverse its course on international justice
19 January 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
On January 20, Joe Biden becomes the president of the United States. Stanford University professor Beth van Schaack was Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (now Global Criminal Justice) under the Obama administ [...]
18 January 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear from former members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Torture, extortion, fabrication of evidence, interference with the judiciary and with electi [...]
15 January 2021
by Suzanne Adner
On December 14, 2020, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court declared inadmissible or insufficient the request for an investigation filed by organizations of the Muslim minority Uighurs. They accuse the Chinese governm [...]
14 January 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Ten years after the Tunisian Revolution on January 14, 2011, the authorities still have not published the official list of wounded and martyrs of this event. About a dozen of them have been organizing a sit-in in Tunis since Decem [...]
12 January 2021
by Patsy Athanase
The Seychelles’ Truth Commission, the year ahead
The Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission resumed its public hearings between November 9 and December 11, after a three-month suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the general elections. A break during which th [...]
11 January 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The spy chief who knew too much or not enough
Ousman Sowe is the current director of the once feared National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in the Gambia. In the early 2000's, he was the NIA head of investigations. Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission he cl [...]
8 January 2021
by Habib Nassar
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The mountain that gave birth to a mouse
Last month, the Hague-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) pronounced its first sentence since its creation 13 years ago. Lebanese lawyer and activist Habib Nassar has closely monitored the STL since its inception. He describe [...]
7 January 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s Truth Commission navigated a pandemic year
Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission had to reinvent itself in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Having had to scrap its public hearings, it has rolled out an impressive array of live-streamed conversations, podcasts, T [...]
5 January 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Gilbert Naccache, a Crystal memory
Jewish political dissident Gilbert Naccache long suffered repression and anti-Semitic attacks from the authorities and his fellow Tunisians. This left-wing activist, a former political prisoner and considered by some to be "a monu [...]
4 January 2021
by Julia Crawford
Australia launches unprecedented war crimes probe
The new Office of the Special Investigator is to start work on January 4. Its job is to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. No member of the Australian armed forces has been prosec [...]
17 December 2020
by Grace Matsiko
ICC Trust Fund: "A good day today is better than a bad day tomorrow" (Uganda)
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 4 Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has fun [...]
16 December 2020
by Lisa Clifford
ICC Trust Fund: "Something to wipe away the tears of victims" (DRC)
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 3 The Germain Katanga trial stands as a concrete example of what reparations may mean at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Journalist Lisa Clifford was in the village of Bogoro back in 2017 wh [...]
14 December 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why the Koblenz trial is an exception?
In the field of universal jurisdiction, successes are rare and deserve to be closely watched, as Justice Info does in a first video of its brand new series IN CAMERA, released today - for the Koblenz trial, the first criminal tria [...]
14 December 2020
by Bronwen Cowley
Koblenz, the first Syrian state crimes trial in Europe
IN CAMERA | Episode 1 Koblenz, central Germany. This is the first state torture trial for Syria. This is also the first episode of Justice Info’s new IN CAMERA series. Every month, we’ll be bringing you a short video to tell the g [...]
11 December 2020
by AFP
Lebanon: STL symbolically sentences Ayyash to life imprisonment
A symbolic life sentence was handed down this Friday in the Netherlands against an alleged member of Hezbollah, Salim Ayyash, tried in absentia for taking part in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hari [...]
11 December 2020
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
Truth Commission: "Mali hears you, the world is watching"
Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) held its second public hearing in the capital Bamako on December 5 under the theme "Attacks on the Right to Life and Physical Integrity". The hearing provided a forum for [...]
10 December 2020
by Antoine Harari
Kosiah: “You can jail me for a thousand years, I fear no one!”
The long-awaited trial of former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah began this week in the southern Swiss town of Bellinzona with questioning of the accused. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, where he has [...]
9 December 2020
by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Trust Fund: The black hole
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 2 The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) was initially conceived as an independent reparations body; the organisation that would provide the International Criminal Court-ordered reparations to victims. Bu [...]
8 December 2020
by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Trust Fund: The headless chicken
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 1 In 15 years, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has struggled to develop its strategy. Its budget is opaque. Its output as limited as it is difficult to assess. Through cour [...]