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.
Why the Dutch are threatening to take Syria to court
22 September 2020
by Stephanie van den Berg and Janet Anderson
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
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
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
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 [...]
31 August 2020
by Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Martine Lind Krebs
Activists demand mental decolonization in Greenland
This summer’s surge of activism against colonial statues also affected Greenland. Is removing a colonial statue an erasure of the past, or does keeping it indicate that memories of colonial violence have been erased? This was the [...]
28 August 2020
by Olivier Truc
Swedish truth commissions on the way
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Tornedalians, another Truth Commission project for the Sámi: Sweden is getting ready to confront its past and present with regard to the fate of its minorities. Against a backdrop of l [...]
27 August 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza and Claude Sengenya
Bled by armed groups, Congo’s Virunga Park wants justice
Armed groups that have been roaming eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for decades are known for killing and raping civilians. But they are also responsible for environmental crimes of ever-growing proportions, particularl [...]
25 August 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: Uribe vs transitional justice
Former president Alvaro Uribe, Colombia’s most powerful politician and a staunch opponent to the 2016 peace deal, was placed under house early this month for alleged witness tampering. He is retaliating by attacking two crucial ju [...]
24 August 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
The good and bad manners of Nigeria towards the ICC
Nigeria is no doubt the African state that sent the strongest message supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the American president announced sanctions against it on June 11. But many say Nigeria is not fulfilling [...]
3 August 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
The best of Justice Info (2019-2020)
Justice Info is taking a summer break and will resume publishing on August 24. In the meantime, we bring you a selection of our best articles over the last year. The selection is based firstly on your choice – the most read articl [...]