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.
Truth on pause in Gambia, Seychelles and Colombia
23 March 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe, Patsy Athanase, and Andres Bermudez Lievano
In the Gambia and the Seychelles truth commission hearings have been suspended last week due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Public hearings will not resume in the Gambia before early June, at the earliest, after Ramadan. It remains unc [...]
19 March 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
You’re in lock-down? Listening Stayin’ Alive? May be the right time to finally seat down and learn and laugh about Kosovo’s « zombie court », as nicknamed by Justice Info’s apocalypse freak correspondents and partners, Janet Ander [...]
19 March 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Truth is purportedly the first casualty of war. It is also the object of constant wrangling in Colombia’s transition. While many Colombians are looking towards the Truth Commission to shed light on 52 years of conflict, President [...]
17 March 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Five people acquitted years ago by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda are still waiting to find a host country. One of them for 16 years. This situation looks unlikely to change any time soon, for them and for four con [...]
16 March 2020
by Thijs Bouwknegt and Barbora Holá
Dominic Ongwen: the ICC’s Poster and Problem Child
Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard the closing arguments in the trial of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, five years after his first appearance. In no other ICC trial have case narratives been so opposite, morally comp [...]
13 March 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Rwanda tribunal residual body fails to catch fugitives
The Mechanism charged with residual tasks of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) lies outside the Tanzanian town of Arusha, and seemingly outside of time. With its annual budget of 40 million dollars and 200 empl [...]
12 March 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When Jammeh was turning crocodile
Ebou Jarju, a steward, and Ensa Keita, a gravel and sand provider, are civilians who once got to work for former president Yahya Jammeh, directly or close enough. And they were not the only ones to have paid a heavy price for it, [...]
10 March 2020
by Stephanie van den Berg
MH17: Why the Dutch ruled out war crimes charges
Three Russians and one Ukrainian are prosecuted by a Dutch court for the shooting down of a civilian aircraft in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. On the opening of the trial on March 9, the prosecution revealed why it c [...]
9 March 2020
by Grace Matsiko
12 years on, Uganda’s International Crimes Division has little to show
While the International Criminal Court hears this week the closing arguments in the trial of former Ugandan LRA rebel Dominic Ongwen, the trial of LRA Thomas Kwoyelo is announced to resume today in Uganda, following years of frust [...]
5 March 2020
by AFP
The ICC gives green light to Afghanistan investigation
Appeals judges of the International Criminal Court have overturned the highly controversial decision of their peers in April 2019 to reject the opening of an investigation in Afghanistan. The investigation, which targets U.S. agen [...]
5 March 2020
by Astrid Nonbo Andersen
Lessons from the Greenlandic reconciliation process
Truth commissions are multiplying in Nordic countries. The Swedish government has just announced a second one addressing abuse against national minorities, coming on top of those created or planned in Norway and Finland. Prior to [...]
3 March 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
Looking for ways to address war crimes in Yemen
Up until now, the war in Yemen has not noticeably been a major focus for war crimes accountability campaigners. But in recent months some specific attempts have emerged to trace responsibility for war-related killings and sufferin [...]
2 March 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Will Colombia’s FARC be allowed to clear mines to repair their victims?
Colombian victims want to see the former guerrillas clearing landmines. The government less so. Delays, bureaucratic hurdles and the government’s lack of urgency are preventing former combatants to do the work. As a result, one of [...]
28 February 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia and the repression of left-wing youth
In the 1960s and 1970s, young Tunisian students joined the extreme left to oppose the absolute power of President Bourguiba. They were called "Perspectivists". They suffered the worst abuses. Nearly 50 years later, a specialized c [...]
27 February 2020
by Enrica Picco
Can the Central African Truth Commission do better than its predecessor?
The Central African parliament is this week meeting to vote on a bill creating a Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TJRRC) to "establish the truth about serious national events since 1959". But the TJRRC is [...]
25 February 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Finger pointing in the security forces
Since the start of its public hearings in January 2019, the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed multiple abuses perpetrated by all security services under Yahya Jammeh's regime. Last week, a Gambi [...]
24 February 2020
by AFP
First indictments are filed before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers
The Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers filed the first indictments against Kosovo officials for crimes committed during the war of independence more than 20 years ago. Five years after the establishment of this so-called [...]
24 February 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How Guantanamo came to haunt the U.S. at the ICC
There are still 40 men held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo. Without direct access to them, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, a U.S.-based organization, are using their stories of abuse and illegal dete [...]
24 February 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ongwen trial: can the victims see a light at the end of the road?
What can happen after this, for the communities? This week at the International Criminal Court (ICC), prosecution and defence will be presenting their final arguments in the long distance trial of Dominic Ongwen, a former commande [...]