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.
Ayachi Hammami: “There’s been mismanagement of time” in Tunisia’s transitional justice
21 July 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
When he was appointed head of the Ministry of Human Rights and Relations with Constitutional Bodies and Civil Society in February 2020, lawyer and activist Ayachi Hammami promised to publish the final report of the Truth and Digni [...]
20 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Not only does former president of Gambia Yahya Jammeh love cars, but he is remembered for his high-speed convoys. In the second week of July, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission began probing into the ex-ruler's c [...]
17 July 2020
by Thomas Guerber
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in the USA, many countries are currently facing protests against police brutality and calls for police reform. A few key principles and challenges have been identified through decades of ex [...]
16 July 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
On 2 July, the specialized chamber in Tunis heard defendants in the case of Rachida Kouki, a housemaid who worked for the family of the nephew of Leila Trabelsi Ben Ali, the former First Lady. Rachida Kouki's former bosses are acc [...]
14 July 2020
by AFP
Mali: a second jihadist trial opens at the ICC
Today marks the symbolic opening in The Hague of the trial of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, the second Malian jihadist prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for war crimes and crimes against human [...]
14 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
David Colley, Gambia’s worst prison director ever
It was a marathon testimony. Over three days David Colley, the longest serving director general of the infamous Mile 2 prison, appeared before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia. Colley’s time is rememb [...]
13 July 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Covid-19 can derail reparations in Colombia’s Amazon
The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating the entire Amazon basin, just as one of Colombia’s most ambitious redress programs for indigenous victims in this remote rainforest region is poised to kick off. A program that is the result of [...]
10 July 2020
by Hariz Halilovich
The Srebrenica genocide has changed me and my generation
As the world commemorates the July 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnian-Australian scholar Hariz Halilovich reflects on how this defining event of the war in Bosnia has become a part of his personal and collective memory and ident [...]
9 July 2020
by Srđan Šušnica
The legacy of Srebrenica and the bitter victories of genocide
25 years ago, about 8,000 men were murdered in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. This was the largest massacre in post-WWII Europe. The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled it was genocide. [...]
7 July 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
25 years after Srebrenica, assessing justice and genocide denial
This July 11 marks a quarter century since the massacre of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the eve of the commemorations, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts are exposing the li [...]
7 July 2020
by Tjitske Lingsma
Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Billion dollar trial
15 years of investigations, 970 million dollars at a minimum, no prisoner, and still no verdict. The first terrorism judgment before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, announced for mid-May, has been postponed to an unknown date. O [...]
6 July 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Tambadou quits: Will Gambia’s transition stay on course?
Abubakarr Tambadou, Gambia’s Minister of Justice, resigned on June 25 to join a United Nations international tribunal. Tambadou has been a driving force behind the transitional justice process in his country and its strongest advo [...]
3 July 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The next ICC prosecutor: States “wanted something new”
Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts are on top of things this week. The whole Twitter sphere was in shock two days ago when the Committee on the Election of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released its s [...]
3 July 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
The ICC is looking for a new prosecutor – and it starts with a surprise
On June 30, the selection committee in charge of submitting candidates for the most important job at the International Criminal Court – the Prosecutor – has released a short-list of four names. None of the “big shots” are among th [...]
2 July 2020
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium wants to confront its colonial past
On 30 June, the King of the Belgians, for the first time, expressed his "regrets" to the Congolese people for the suffering caused by colonial rule. A week earlier, the Belgian parliament had initiated the creation of a "truth com [...]
30 June 2020
by Tim Murithi
A U.S. Truth Commission? Insights from South Africa
The continued recurrence of U.S. police brutality against black people suggests that the discriminatory and racist mindsets that prevailed during slavery and Jim Crow segregation are still intact within American society and will n [...]
29 June 2020
by Katie Pickles
Removing monuments is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
The global furore about the meaning and relevance of statues, memorials and place names from a racist, imperial past presents a special challenge to Aotearoa-New Zealand. Are we ready to craft our own decolonial exit strategy? Or [...]
26 June 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Remembering Sadok Hichri
Civil society paid tribute on 20 June to Sadok Hichri, one of the leaders of the Baath Arab Nationalist Party, who died 36 years ago. But in Bouarada, the small town where Hichri was born, the mayor still refuses to name a square [...]
24 June 2020
by AFP
Kosovo President is accused of crimes against humanity
Hashim Thaci, President of Kosovo, is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes by the Prosecutor of the Specialist Chambers for Kosovo, an international tribunal based in The Hague. Kadri Veseli, former head of intelligen [...]