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 can former warlords make peace in Ituri?
8 May 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Marie-Ange Makadi
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
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 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
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 [...]
24 April 2020
by Michael Kearney
ICC/Palestine: When do states recognise states?
By the deadline of March 16, no less than 43 amicus briefs had been submitted to the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court on the Situation in Palestine. Among them an unprecedented number of briefs were filed by s [...]
23 April 2020
by Lena Bjurström
"For the first time, torture committed by the Assad regime will be discussed in a court"
The world’s first trial on state torture in Syria starts today, April 23, in Koblenz, Germany. The main accused, Colonel Anwar Raslan, is the first official of the Syrian intelligence services to go on trial, charged with complici [...]
21 April 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Justice is eminently political, says Tunisian expert
What are the links between transitional justice and political changes in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria? We talked to Eric Gobe, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and directing editor of Justice [...]
20 April 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
DRC: Outcry as indigenous people convicted for “wicked destruction of nature”
Eight members of the Batwa ethnic group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were on February 4 given heavy sentences for “wicked destruction of nature” in a national park. The indigenous people are defending their right to acc [...]
17 April 2020
by Pierre Hazan
Making good use of amnesties in peace processes
According to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, amnesty is - in theory - prohibited for perpetrators of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. In practice, explains transitiona [...]
16 April 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Covid-19: should we release vulnerable convicts?
Covid-19 is spreading fear everywhere, including prisons. Senegal has just provisionally released Hissène Habré, 78, who was sentenced to life in 2017 for crimes against humanity. Lawyers for other prisoners convicted by internati [...]
14 April 2020
by Thierry Cruvellier
The Massaquoi Affair: Special report on the Judas of Sierra Leone (Part 2)
Gibril Massaquoi, the main informer for the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), was arrested in Finland on 10 March. This is the first time that a UN court "insider" has been prosecuted by a national court wit [...]
10 April 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
Reunion’s transplanted children still waiting for justice
Between 1962 and 1984, 2,015 children and adolescents from Reunion Island were "transplanted" to mainland France. On 10 April 2018, a report commissioned by the French Ministry of Overseas Territories recommended reparations for t [...]
9 April 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
FARC’s kidnappings: from “retention” to criminal confinement
The legal case on kidnappings by FARC will be a major test for Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace – the judicial arm of the country’s transitional justice system. Two thousands victims have been accredited in the case. But [...]