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.
Kabuga’s transfer to the Mechanism: Is it the right thing to do?
1 October 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
The surprise arrest in May of an old Rwandan man, soon after the end of lockdown in a chic Paris suburb, is having knock-on consequences. High-profile fugitive Félicien Kabuga has changed overnight the prospects of the “Mechanism” [...]
1 October 2020
by André Guichaoua
What are the consequences of the arrest last May in France of Félicien Kabuga, considered to be one of the main perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide? French sociologist André Guichaoua, a former expert witness for the prosecu [...]
29 September 2020
by Lena Bjurström
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Uğur Üngör Professor at the NIOD Institute for war, holocaust and genocide studies in Amsterdam. Almost a decade after the revolution and the beginning of the civil war in Syria, several countri [...]
28 September 2020
by Julia Crawford
The UN’s new evidence-gathering body on international crimes in Myanmar, launched a year ago, announced it has started to share information in the Rohingya genocide case before the International Court of Justice, including with th [...]
25 September 2020
by Stéphanie Maupas
ICC Prosecutor election: The wheeling and dealing is not yet done
The stakes are far from played out for the election of the International Criminal Court’s third prosecutor, scheduled for December at the Assembly of States Parties. At the end of June, a Committee selected four candidates. But no [...]
22 September 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What's new on the Myanmar front?
Last week, the New York Times reported that two former soldiers from the armed forces of Myanmar arrived at the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague. Alleged video confessions are circulating in which they not only adm [...]
22 September 2020
by Stephanie van den Berg and Janet Anderson
Why the Dutch are threatening to take Syria to court
To the surprise and satisfaction of all those who are campaigning to hold Bashar al-Assad's regime to account, the Netherlands, best known for its appetite for consensus, has taken the first diplomatic steps towards a possible Int [...]
21 September 2020
by Marie-Laure Josselin
Marie Wilson: “It is too early to say Canada had great success with the Truth Commission”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Marie Wilson Former Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada The Canadian government has just put residential schools on the official list of national historic events. F [...]
17 September 2020
by Ben Saul
Exchanging killers for peace in Afghanistan - questions about a US-made amnesty
The terms of the "pax americana" in Afghanistan raise many questions. The Taliban and the United States have pressured the Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners it holds. In return, the Taliban pledged to release 1, [...]
15 September 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syria: a spotlight on a bureaucracy of mass killings
A Syrian government employee has testified anonymously, last week in the Al-Khatib trial in Koblenz (Germany), where two former secret service officers stand accused of crimes against humanity. He described vast mass graves, and d [...]
14 September 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: The Hall of Never Again sends out distress signals
The Hall of Never Again is one of Colombia’s best known memorials. It was conceived by victims of the civil war in Granada, a town that has become an icon of reconstruction and resilience. But the recent damage caused by a water l [...]
11 September 2020
by Gabriel Labrador
Spain rules on the murders of Jesuits in Salvador
The verdict came in the afternoon of September 11th. Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, a former Salvadoran Deputy Minister of Public Security, was found guilty of murdering six Jesuit priests, a cook and her daughter on 16 Nov [...]
10 September 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
Sexual abuse in the Church: Is it a crime against humanity?
Faced with the slow reactions of the Catholic Church and States, some wish to go further on punishing sexual abuse in the Church. Given its gravity and extent over time as well as across the world, they think a qualification as a [...]
8 September 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
Sexual abuse in the Church: map of justice worldwide
With tens of thousands of victims worldwide over several decades, sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church is an unprecedented issue of justice. In order to reveal and confront the magnitude of the crimes, many transitional [...]
7 September 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission in a time of uncertainty
All was going according to schedule at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia. Until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Public hearings were suspended for the second time last month. An extension of the Comm [...]
4 September 2020
by Antoine Audouard
Duch, the last silence of the torturer
In the aftermath of the death of Douch, a former Khmer Rouge torturer convicted of crimes against humanity, French writer Antoine Audouard examines crime and punishment, the often insoluble questions posed by the journey of a murd [...]
3 September 2020
by Thierry Cruvellier
Duch, a symbol to the bitter end
Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his revolutionary nickname Duch, died in Phnom Penh on September 2. The former director of the infamous prison S-21 under Pol Pot's regime had become the unwilling symbol of the mass crime committed [...]
1 September 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
The man who brought Raslan to Germany
In the Koblenz trial on Syrian state torture, the former secret service officer Anwar Raslan is accused of crimes against humanity. In 2014, he had arrived in Germany with the help of Riad Seif, one of Syria’s most prominent oppos [...]