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.
How the arts can serve justice in post-war Lebanon
25 May 2020
by Ruth Artiles Valero
Many artistic efforts have failed to provide a common-ground for authentic reconciliation in post-war Lebanon because they continue to rely on the construction of privatised narratives, argues scholar Ruth Artiles Valero. Lebanon [...]
21 May 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
On May 18, former Syrian intelligence senior officer Anwar Raslan gave his version of how he worked when he was in charge of General Secret Service’s Branch 251 in Damascus, Syria’s capital city, prior to 2011. He rejected all all [...]
19 May 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Last April Benin and Ivory Coast decided to join Tanzania and Rwanda in preventing citizens and NGOs from bringing cases directly to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Such cases represented the vast majority of those [...]
19 May 2020
by Marco Bocchese
Guillaume Soro, a former rebel commander and prime minister of Ivory Coast, and a top contender in the October presidential election, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by an Ivorian court on corruption charges. Many signs ind [...]
18 May 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza, Emmanuel Sehene, Franck Petit and Thierry Cruvellier
Félicien Kabuga, 23 years on the run... and what’s next?
Félicien Kabuga, the great paymaster of the Rwandan regime in the early 1990s, accused of genocide, was arrested on 16 May in France. For 23 years, he had escaped international justice. His surprise arrest raises many questions. I [...]
15 May 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The uncompleted search for the disappeared
In April 2019, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission successfully exhumed the bodies of seven former soldiers who had been thrown into a mass grave in 1994. A year later their identity is still unknown. And no other [...]
14 May 2020
by Abraham Kouassi
Is Côte d’Ivoire’s Remembrance Day a move for reconciliation?
Nine years after the violent crisis that shook Côte d’Ivoire, the country and its authorities are still dealing with the thorny issue of how to remember the victims. December 16 has been chosen as a Day of Remembrance, which seems [...]
12 May 2020
by Michael Reed-Hurtado
Covid-19 fevers: Justice stalled, justice displaced, justice lost?
Covid-19 and governmental responses have brought an inevitable lull to human rights accountability. The current loss of momentum, coupled with preexisting backsliding, could prove devastating for accountability efforts around the [...]
11 May 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Covid-19 pushes reparations further away in Colombia
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the work of Colombia's transitional justice since the country went into mandatory lockdown at the end of March. While the truth commission and the judicial system are on pause, the vict [...]
8 May 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Marie-Ange Makadi
How can former warlords make peace in Ituri?
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi's new gamble came as a surprise. With two International Criminal Court convicts as leading figures, Thomas Lubanga and Germain Katanga, the head of state has charged a handful of former rebels, [...]
7 May 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Ousman Sonko: a view on the Swiss case, from Gambia’s Truth Commission
Gambia’s former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has been imprisoned in Switzerland for more than three years. A number of witnesses before the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission have implicated him in a numb [...]
5 May 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
As Tunisia emerges from confinement, what future for its specialized chambers?
As Tunisia this week starts gradually coming out of confinement, will the fate of the judicial chambers specialized in transitional justice be sacrificed on the altar of economic recovery? Some victims are worried about this, whil [...]
4 May 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What will the Koblenz trial show of state crimes in Syria?
Germany is taking a decisive lead on universal jurisdiction trials, with three trials opened successively in Koblenz, Frankfurt and Hamburg in the last three weeks. As reported in JusticeInfo, the Koblenz trial will be c [...]
4 May 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
They felt too safe: how two Syrian agents ended up on trial in Germany
After a week of hearings in Koblenz (Germany), the first historic trial to deal with state torture in Syria provided insight on how two refugees – a former chief at the General Intelligence Directorate in Damascus and a distant su [...]
30 April 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What can we learn from perpetrators?
In this new podcast our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts invite Kjell Anderson, one of the world’s rare ‘perpetrator experts’ and author of "Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account". He talks with Janet Anderson and Ste [...]
30 April 2020
by Wayne Jordash
Insiders: The Special Court for Sierra Leone’s dirty laundry
The arrest in Finland on 10 March of Gibril Massaquoi, the main informer of the Prosecutor of the U.N. tribunal for Sierra Leone, has sparked a sensitive debate on how international tribunals make deals with alleged criminals. Way [...]
28 April 2020
by Yaël Vias Gvirsman
Palestine Situation before the ICC: reflections and views of Israel
The “Palestine Situation” puts the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the heart of geopolitical tensions and again raises issues of an international criminal court’s role in global governance, of the paradigm of law over power [...]
27 April 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
French commission sheds first light on sexual abuse in the Church
A creative kind of non-state truth commission, charged with establishing the facts on sexual abuses committed in the church in France since 1950, has been collecting testimonies for more than a year and is working on how to respon [...]
24 April 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why and how the ICC should prosecute starvation as a war crime?
In December 2019, the International Criminal Court (ICC) added starvation as a war crime to their statute. This is a crime recognized by the Geneva Conventions, which the Rome Statute had bypassed for unknown reasons. This week, o [...]