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.
ICC/Uganda: “Ongwen was and still is a victim,” says lawyer
22 October 2019
by Grace Matsiko and Ephrem Rugiririza
For the past year, Ugandan Dominic Ongwen has been presenting his defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, more than 50 witnesses have testified in the defence of the former Lord's Resistance Army brigade co [...]
21 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
A first payment of about 1 million dollars to the new Reparations Fund of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been made, announced Gambia’s Minister of Justice on October 7. This is taken from the seized asset [...]
18 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Former Defense minister Edward Singhateh admitted ordering the execution of several soldiers on November 11, 1994, in his much-awaited testimony yesterday October 17 before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. A f [...]
15 October 2019
by Frédéric Ojardias
Why Seoul and Tokyo are still at war over the past
Relations between South Korea and Japan have been deteriorating at a worrying rate for several months. At the heart of the conflict is the duty of remembrance of the Japanese government, which is accused by its South Korean neighb [...]
14 October 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg
CAR II: Secret Story at the ICC, second season
In the Central African Republic case number 2, aka “CAR II”, the International Criminal Court prosecutor has presented an evidence largely marked by the seal of secrecy against two former militia leaders, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona [...]
11 October 2019
by Benjamin Bibas
Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Christel Cournil Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, co-author of “Les procès climatiques : entre le national et l’international” (2018). Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed [...]
10 October 2019
by Julia Crawford
Raw truth of Swiss administrative detention finally made public
At least 60,000 people were subject to forced “administrative detentions” or compulsory “welfare” measures, often abused and sexually assaulted, in Switzerland over much of the 20th century, according to a recent expert report, wh [...]
8 October 2019
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
New rape trial near victims in eastern DRC
A Congolese military tribunal has since early September been trying a militia leader and four militia members in local hearings for numerous acts of rape committed in South Kivu. More than 190 victims of sexual violence are civil [...]
7 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president
Isatou Njie Saidy was Gambia’s vice-president during twenty years of the 22-year rule of Yahya Jammeh. Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission she admitted endorsing the order sending the army to crush a studen [...]
4 October 2019
by Claude Sengenya
Congo: Rebel leader’s killing leaves justice wanting
Two weeks after Sylvestre Mudacumura's brutal "neutralization" by the Congolese army, voices are being raised on behalf of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo demanding justice for the victims by pursuing crimes of the [...]
3 October 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Does the Liberian president really want a war crimes court?
Under pressure to set up a special court to try crimes committed in the civil wars that ended 16 years ago, Liberian President George Weah has broken his silence on the issue. But his intentions are still in doubt.
1 October 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Three years on, Colombians still await FARC public remorse
Exactly three years after the plebiscite that showed how divided Colombians are on the landmark peace deal that led to the disarming of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), millions of Colombians are still awa [...]
27 September 2019
by Inès Laure Ngopot
A Central African journalist at the ICC
Hearings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Yekatom-Ngaïssona case are suspended until 11 October. The handful of Central African journalists who were able to attend in The Hague are back in Bangui. What impressions [...]
26 September 2019
by Gaël Grilhot
Central African courts outpace the ICC and Special Court
Bangui’s Criminal Court on Monday tried a former chief of the Seleka rebellion for crimes against humanity and war crimes, while in The Hague a confirmation of charges hearing was held against two former leaders of the Anti-Balaka [...]
25 September 2019
by Zenzele Ndebele and Lesley Moyo
Zimbabwe: Mugabe is buried, not the past
The state funeral for former president Robert Mugabe took place on September 14 in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city. He will never have to answer the crimes committed under his regime. And despite the creation of a truth commission [...]
24 September 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: They were enemies, now they make laws together
They both met as newly elected Congressmen and forged an improbable partnership. Ómar Restrepo and César Eugenio Martínez are on the opposite sides of Colombia’s political scene. One is from the former leftist guerrilla of the FAR [...]
23 September 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: I betrayed the students injured by gunshots, confesses Dr Jallow
The order came from the State House, she explained. On September 19, before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, Dr Mariatou Jallow confessed that she seized the medical records of students who had been shot by th [...]
20 September 2019
by Victoria Yan
Lebanon: new indictment, old troubles
On September 16, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon disclosed a second indictment, eight years after its first one on the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. The new indictment deals with three othe [...]