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 ICC is looking for a new prosecutor – and it starts with a surprise
3 July 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
On June 30, the selection committee in charge of submitting candidates for the most important job at the International Criminal Court – the Prosecutor – has released a short-list of four names. None of the “big shots” are among th [...]
2 July 2020
by Gaëlle Ponselet
On 30 June, the King of the Belgians, for the first time, expressed his "regrets" to the Congolese people for the suffering caused by colonial rule. A week earlier, the Belgian parliament had initiated the creation of a "truth com [...]
30 June 2020
by Tim Murithi
The continued recurrence of U.S. police brutality against black people suggests that the discriminatory and racist mindsets that prevailed during slavery and Jim Crow segregation are still intact within American society and will n [...]
29 June 2020
by Katie Pickles
The global furore about the meaning and relevance of statues, memorials and place names from a racist, imperial past presents a special challenge to Aotearoa-New Zealand. Are we ready to craft our own decolonial exit strategy? Or [...]
26 June 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Remembering Sadok Hichri
Civil society paid tribute on 20 June to Sadok Hichri, one of the leaders of the Baath Arab Nationalist Party, who died 36 years ago. But in Bouarada, the small town where Hichri was born, the mayor still refuses to name a square [...]
24 June 2020
by AFP
Kosovo President is accused of crimes against humanity
Hashim Thaci, President of Kosovo, is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes by the Prosecutor of the Specialist Chambers for Kosovo, an international tribunal based in The Hague. Kadri Veseli, former head of intelligen [...]
23 June 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The Trump attack on the ICC
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
Kuomintang assets at heart of transitional battle in Taiwan
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
The truth behind the walls of Mile 2 prison, Jammeh’s “five-star hotel”
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
Syria: the man in Raslan’s shadow - was he just following orders?
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 [...]