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.
The Trump attack on the ICC
23 June 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On June 11, an Executive Order by U.S. president Donald Trump threatened sanctions on investigators and staff of the International Criminal Court, and perhaps other people beyond the court. Former U.S. deputy war crimes ambassador [...]
23 June 2020
by Vladimir Stolojan-Filipesco
Taiwan is trying to turn the page on four decades of Kuomintang domination, although the Kuomintang remains a central party in the island's newly democratic game. For the past four years, with varying degrees of success, three tra [...]
22 June 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
During his 22-year rule, Gambia’s leader Yahya Jammeh was known for swearing in public and threatening his fellow citizens. One of his favorite threats was: ‘I will send you to my five-star hotel’. This was his euphemism for Mile [...]
19 June 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Eyad Al-Gharib is the less known defendant in the first trial dealing with Syrian state torture that opened in April in Germany. As a low-ranking member of the intelligence service, he is accused of complicity in crimes against hu [...]
18 June 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Election of the new ICC Prosecutor - what can be expected?
Before the end of June, a shortlist of candidates for the prestigious post of International Criminal Court Prosecutor will come out. This will give a closer view of the options before the ICC States Parties, who will announce thei [...]
18 June 2020
by Lena Bjurström
Syria: Why Dutch prosecutors link terrorism and war crimes
On 18 June, Ahmad Al-Khedr will make his way from his cell to the high-security room of the Amsterdam court for the fifth time. The Syrian, expected to be the first to be tried in the Netherlands under universal jurisdiction [...]
16 June 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Correa, a ‘Jungler’ charged in the US: What Gambia’s Truth Commission has heard
After a US Court indicted him on June 11 on torture charges, Gambian national Michael Sang Correa, 41, will be the very first member of then-president Yahya Jammeh’s “Junglers” death squad to be prosecuted. But before the country’ [...]
15 June 2020
by Patsy Athanase
Seychelles: a national lottery to compensate victims?
In May, the Seychelles’ Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission recommended that a National Lottery should be organised to raise funds for victims seeking compensation for crimes perpetrated during the one-party era, f [...]
12 June 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Justice Info is 5 years old - meet our reporters in the field
Today Justice Info is 5 years old. On this event, we offer you a 5-minute video... Meet, in the field, those who tell our stories of justice around the world. From Cambodia to Colombia via Tunisia and Gambia, our journalists tell [...]
12 June 2020
by Marie-Laure Josselin
Canada: A “year of inaction” on genocide of indigenous women
It was a shock on 3 June 2019 when Canada's National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls pointed to an ongoing genocide of indigenous people as being at the root of these specific violations. A year on, the [...]
11 June 2020
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Kushayb at the ICC: “A first step to justice”, victims expect in Darfur
In al-Salam camp near the Darfur capital Al-Fashir, displaced people on 9 June celebrated the surrender of Janjaweed militia leader “Ali Kushayb” to the International Criminal Court. While others responsible for atrocities committ [...]
9 June 2020
by AFP
Ali Kushayb at the ICC: at last, a first trial for Darfur crimes?
Tonight, Tuesday 9 June, former Sudanese Janjaweed militia leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (alias "Ali Kushayb") will spend his first night in the Dutch prison of Scheveningen. He has been transferred there in line with an A [...]
9 June 2020
by Julia Crawford
Why Liberia’s TRC archives stay in a US university
July 1 will mark eleven years since Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission published its report. But not only have its main recommendations not been implemented, the Commission’s archives remain at the Georgia Institute of [...]
5 June 2020
by Gaël Grilhot and Ephrem Rugiririza
Why there is a wave of arrests at the Central African Special Court
How can we explain the sudden surge of new cases before the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic? The mixed court - which has still not held a trial five years after its creation - has just announced that i [...]
4 June 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Colombian transitional justice’s paramilitary dilemma
Colombia’s transitional justice has a seemingly clear mission, to prosecute former members of the FARC and of the military who committed war crimes during the 52-year-long conflict. But another party keeps popping up every now and [...]
2 June 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The truth shall set you free – or not
What to do with confessed killers? Who decides who is truthful enough to be released after their testimony before the Truth commission? These are questions at the heart of the thorny issue of the “Junglers”, a group of hitmen resp [...]
29 May 2020
by Tom Maliti
How Kenya’s truth commission report became a political ghost
In May 2013, Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission issued its four volume, 2,210 pages report. An implementation committee was recommended to be set up by the Parliament. Instead, political leaders, in government as [...]
28 May 2020
by Ronald C. Slye
7 years on, let’s dust off the Kenyan Truth Commission final report
Ronald Slye was one of three international commissioners with Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. Seven years after the Commission has released its final report, he deplores that almost nothing has been made of i [...]
