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.
Election of the ICC Prosecutor: Here is your vote!
7 December 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
The result of the non-official vote organised by Justice Info on the sidelines of the upcoming International Criminal Court Prosecutor election is clear: British candidate Karim Khan is the big favourite of our readers with 34% of [...]
- International
- Special focus
4 December 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Who will be the third Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? The successor of Fatou Bensouda was to be a consensus candidate among a handful of finalists selected well in advance. But this well-ordered process was s [...]
4 December 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic has dashed the hopes of former president François Bozizé and a dozen other members of armed groups. Their candidacies in the 27 December elections were invalidated. Bozizé, [...]
3 December 2020
by Antoine Harari
Alieu Kosiah, a former Liberian warlord, is the first person to be tried in Switzerland for war crimes before a civil court. His trial has been repeatedly postponed. It opens on 3 December in Bellinzona in a tense atmosphere, afte [...]
1 December 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency
For a year under the military dictatorship, Major Lamin Bo Baaji was the director of Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Yet despite evidence put forward by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, he claimed [...]
30 November 2020
by Maud Sarliève
Corporate responsibility: Switzerland says no but the UN must say yes
The Swiss rejected legislation requiring multinationals to be responsible, at home and abroad, for environmental and human rights abuses related to their activities. As Maud Sarliève explains, Switzerland is thus moving away from [...]
27 November 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Australia’s wake-up call on war crimes
Execution of prisoners, a “blooding” practice where subordinates are ordered to kill out-of-action enemy combatants, a system of covering up war crimes, and “collective blindness” of the army hierarchy: the Brereton inquiry into a [...]
27 November 2020
by Julia Crawford
World watches as Swiss vote on “responsible business”
On November 29 the Swiss vote on a proposal that would make Swiss-based multinationals accountable for environmental crimes and human rights abuses in relation to their activities abroad. Here is how to understand an initiative th [...]
26 November 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian trial in Germany: The orders that came from the very top
In the Al-Khatib trial against two former secret service officers from Syria, a witness has provided confidential documents issued by the Syrian regime. They would prove that crimes were ordered from the highest government level – [...]
24 November 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
Sheka gets life in jail in landmark Congolese judgment
On 23 November, Congolese military justice sentenced former militia leader Ntabo Ntaberi, alias Sheka, to life for war crimes. This is a major success for victims in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, especially women.
23 November 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s transitional justice at the mercy of politics
Three parties and a president have produced bills aimed at national reconciliation, often driven by the desire to interrupt or even reverse the transitional justice process. They mark a failure on the part of politicians, and show [...]
20 November 2020
by Stéphanie Maupas
Exclusive: List of candidates for next ICC Prosecutor
The process of electing the third prosecutor of the International Criminal Court remains chaotic and suspenseful. In the absence of consensus on one of the four candidates selected at the end of June, the bureau of the 123 States [...]
19 November 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Belgium: the money changer, the militiaman and the Rwandan academic
There have been a series of arrests in Europe in recent months of Rwandans accused of participating in the 1994 genocide. After Félicien Kabuga in France, three people were arrested in Belgium in October and another one in the Net [...]
17 November 2020
by Franck Petit
ICC Prosecutor’s election: in December, “potentially no candidate will be nominated”
Four weeks ahead of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court, no agreement has been reached on a candidate to succeed Fatou Bensouda as Prosecutor. Yesterday 15 November, the ASP Secretariat announc [...]
16 November 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people”
In his 22-year rule, Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh allegedly put down several coups. In their aftermaths, the purported participants made confessions on television. Details of how these were obtained and how political opp [...]
13 November 2020
by Julia Crawford
Restitution of cultural property: Do you have to go to court?
In the era of “Black Lives Matter” and the toppling of colonial statues, there is increased demand for restitution of cultural property seized or looted during colonization, often stored in Western museums and sometimes used for s [...]
12 November 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian torture trial: the “Caesar” files in court for the first time
Last week in Koblenz, the renowned “Caesar” files were used as evidence in a court of law, for the first time. A forensic expert testified in the Al-Khatib trial, after having analysed the dead bodies in more than 50,000 photos. H [...]
10 November 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
Gicheru: back to the heart of darkness in the ICC's Kenyan case
Special edition - podcast and article. In a surprise move Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru has appeared, on November 6 at the International Criminal Court, to face allegations of bribing witnesses. His case will remind the prosecution o [...]
9 November 2020
by Maud Sarliève
Multinationals and human rights: do states understand the urgency of a treaty?
Compel multinationals to respect human rights: a draft international treaty, sponsored by the United Nations, has been under discussion for the last six years. The sixth round of negotiations ended on October 30th and there is no [...]