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.
Gambia: When imams opposed “the leader of the people of faith”
27 January 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has resumed its public hearings. It has heard testimonies of clerics who dared challenging former president Yahya Jammeh, after he was declared a religious leader by a subs [...]
24 January 2020
by Patsy Athanase
Between 6 and 17 January the Seychelles’ Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission heard cases of alleged murders and disappearances, including that of Gilbert Morgan, who left the bar of a hotel to meet a friend and was [...]
23 January 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is expected on Thursday in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri. On January 10, the UN published a report saying there was a possible genocide being perpetrated agai [...]
21 January 2020
by Francesca Lessa
Operation Condor: The responsibility of the middle rank
On December 27, Italian judges released the legal grounds behind a judgment in the Operation Condor trial that made history last July. A court of appeal in Rome had overturned numerous acquittals and sentenced 24 South American de [...]
20 January 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe and Thierry Cruvellier
Essa Faal: “We don’t want the truth commission to be seen as a toothless bulldog”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Essa Faal Legal Counsel of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission resumes its public hearings on January 20. For one [...]
17 January 2020
by Gaël Grilhot
Central African Republic: Day of reckoning for Bangassou militia chiefs
This is one of the most eagerly awaited trials of crimes committed in the Central African Republic since the crisis of 2013. The trial of several anti-Balaka militia leaders, including Pino Pino and Béré Béré, opened in Bangui on [...]
16 January 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Battle over Truth Commission archives
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has recently completed the transfer of its archives to the country’s National Archives. But it does not want this institution to keep the audiovisual recordings of victims and witnesses.
14 January 2020
by Maarten van Munster and Joris van Wijk
Angola: The Pandora Box of “Embracing and Forgiving”
Last month, the Angolan government reversed its “forgive and forget” policy on past atrocities committed during the civil war that ended eighteen years ago. It now has a reconciliation plan to honour the memory of victims. But the [...]
13 January 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why targeting cultural heritage is a war crime
What a week! In the view of our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts there has never been a week with so much talk on international law in the mainstream media. Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg are back with a podcast on o [...]
13 January 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
One year of truth-telling in the Gambia
The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been the event of the year in the field of transitional justice. It provided spectacular testimonies, from senior perpetrators in particular, while departing from s [...]
9 January 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
What penalties? Colombia’s justice challenge in 2020
Three years after the peace accords were signed, Colombians still ponder what sanctions will be applied to ex-FARC and members of Armed Forces. Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace has yet to determine the precise guidelines [...]
7 January 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Truth still elusive in symbolic Barkati case
The trial of the alleged torturers and killers of Nabil Barkati, a leftwing activist tortured to death in 1987, seems to be the most advanced of the cases currently being examined by Tunisia’s specialized chambers. But although se [...]
6 January 2020
by Tjitske Lingsma
East Timor: stolen child back home from Indonesia
After 41 years Arsica was reunited with her parents. She was among more than 4,000 East Timorese children who had been forcibly removed from their families, according to East Timor’s Truth Commission, and taken illegally to Indone [...]
20 December 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Fabien Neretse is found guilty of genocide
Fabien Neretse, a former senior Rwandan civil servant, was found guilty of genocide by a Belgian court. The septuagenarian was convicted of at least eleven murders and three attempted murders, committed in Rwanda in 1994 and quali [...]
20 December 2019
by Justice Info
2019 - The international justice year in photos
Justice Info is taking a break from December 23 to January 5. But in the meantime, we bring you ten strong images from 2019. Gambian ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s money, technological innovations, environmental justice, a victory for [...]
19 December 2019
by Julia Crawford
Myanmar: the UN body is building up, and watching
The latest evidence gathering body, located in Geneva, is for Myanmar. It is one of the United Nations’ “International, Impartial, Investigative Mechanisms”. How is this new body progressing and what can be expected of it? Justice [...]
17 December 2019
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Tricky task for Belgian jurors to judge a Rwandan for genocide
Fabien Neretse, a Rwandan accused of genocide before a Belgian court, is about to hear the judgment in his case. His fate depends on 12 laymen and women who have no knowledge about the realities of Rwanda in 1994. Scholar and form [...]
17 December 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
“I’m not sure Tunisia’s political parties will advance human rights,” says expert
Law professor and human rights activist Wahid Ferchichi is an expert on transitional justice in Tunisia. Nine years after the revolution in Tunisia and one year after the country’s Truth Commission finished its work, he analyses t [...]