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.
Koblenz, the first Syrian state crimes trial in Europe
14 December 2020
by Bronwen Cowley
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
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
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
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 [...]
7 December 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Election of the ICC Prosecutor: Here is your vote!
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 [...]
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4 December 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
ICC desperately seeking prosecutor
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
Central African Republic: Constitutional Court says no to war crimes suspects
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
Trial of Liberian Alieu Kosiah opens in Switzerland
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 [...]