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 there is a wave of arrests at the Central African Special Court
5 June 2020
by Gaël Grilhot and Ephrem Rugiririza
How can we explain the sudden surge of new cases before the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic? The mixed court - which has still not held a trial five years after its creation - has just announced that i [...]
4 June 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia’s transitional justice has a seemingly clear mission, to prosecute former members of the FARC and of the military who committed war crimes during the 52-year-long conflict. But another party keeps popping up every now and [...]
2 June 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
What to do with confessed killers? Who decides who is truthful enough to be released after their testimony before the Truth commission? These are questions at the heart of the thorny issue of the “Junglers”, a group of hitmen resp [...]
29 May 2020
by Tom Maliti
In May 2013, Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission issued its four volume, 2,210 pages report. An implementation committee was recommended to be set up by the Parliament. Instead, political leaders, in government as [...]
28 May 2020
by Ronald C. Slye
7 years on, let’s dust off the Kenyan Truth Commission final report
Ronald Slye was one of three international commissioners with Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. Seven years after the Commission has released its final report, he deplores that almost nothing has been made of i [...]
25 May 2020
by Ruth Artiles Valero
How the arts can serve justice in post-war Lebanon
Many artistic efforts have failed to provide a common-ground for authentic reconciliation in post-war Lebanon because they continue to rely on the construction of privatised narratives, argues scholar Ruth Artiles Valero. Lebanon [...]
21 May 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
The Raslan trial in Germany: “I did not order torture or support it”
On May 18, former Syrian intelligence senior officer Anwar Raslan gave his version of how he worked when he was in charge of General Secret Service’s Branch 251 in Damascus, Syria’s capital city, prior to 2011. He rejected all all [...]
19 May 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The shrinking African court
Last April Benin and Ivory Coast decided to join Tanzania and Rwanda in preventing citizens and NGOs from bringing cases directly to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Such cases represented the vast majority of those [...]
19 May 2020
by Marco Bocchese
Can prosecuting Guillaume Soro redeem the ICC?
Guillaume Soro, a former rebel commander and prime minister of Ivory Coast, and a top contender in the October presidential election, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by an Ivorian court on corruption charges. Many signs ind [...]
18 May 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza, Emmanuel Sehene, Franck Petit and Thierry Cruvellier
Félicien Kabuga, 23 years on the run... and what’s next?
Félicien Kabuga, the great paymaster of the Rwandan regime in the early 1990s, accused of genocide, was arrested on 16 May in France. For 23 years, he had escaped international justice. His surprise arrest raises many questions. I [...]
15 May 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The uncompleted search for the disappeared
In April 2019, the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission successfully exhumed the bodies of seven former soldiers who had been thrown into a mass grave in 1994. A year later their identity is still unknown. And no other [...]
14 May 2020
by Abraham Kouassi
Is Côte d’Ivoire’s Remembrance Day a move for reconciliation?
Nine years after the violent crisis that shook Côte d’Ivoire, the country and its authorities are still dealing with the thorny issue of how to remember the victims. December 16 has been chosen as a Day of Remembrance, which seems [...]
12 May 2020
by Michael Reed-Hurtado
Covid-19 fevers: Justice stalled, justice displaced, justice lost?
Covid-19 and governmental responses have brought an inevitable lull to human rights accountability. The current loss of momentum, coupled with preexisting backsliding, could prove devastating for accountability efforts around the [...]
11 May 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Covid-19 pushes reparations further away in Colombia
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the work of Colombia's transitional justice since the country went into mandatory lockdown at the end of March. While the truth commission and the judicial system are on pause, the vict [...]
8 May 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Marie-Ange Makadi
How can former warlords make peace in Ituri?
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
Ousman Sonko: a view on the Swiss case, from Gambia’s Truth Commission
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 emerges from confinement, what future for its specialized chambers?
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
What will the Koblenz trial show of state crimes in Syria?
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 [...]