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.
Australia launches unprecedented war crimes probe
4 January 2021
by Julia Crawford
The new Office of the Special Investigator is to start work on January 4. Its job is to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. No member of the Australian armed forces has been prosec [...]
17 December 2020
by Grace Matsiko
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 4 Extreme violence in Northern Uganda was the first case taken by the International Criminal Court. The only accused tried in The Hague is yet to be sentenced. But the Trust Fund for Victims has fun [...]
16 December 2020
by Lisa Clifford
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 3 The Germain Katanga trial stands as a concrete example of what reparations may mean at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Journalist Lisa Clifford was in the village of Bogoro back in 2017 wh [...]
14 December 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
In the field of universal jurisdiction, successes are rare and deserve to be closely watched, as Justice Info does in a first video of its brand new series IN CAMERA, released today - for the Koblenz trial, the first criminal tria [...]
14 December 2020
by Bronwen Cowley
Koblenz, the first Syrian state crimes trial in Europe
IN CAMERA | Episode 1 Koblenz, central Germany. This is the first state torture trial for Syria. This is also the first episode of Justice Info’s new IN CAMERA series. Every month, we’ll be bringing you a short video to tell the g [...]
11 December 2020
by AFP
Lebanon: STL symbolically sentences Ayyash to life imprisonment
A symbolic life sentence was handed down this Friday in the Netherlands against an alleged member of Hezbollah, Salim Ayyash, tried in absentia for taking part in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hari [...]
11 December 2020
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
Truth Commission: "Mali hears you, the world is watching"
Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) held its second public hearing in the capital Bamako on December 5 under the theme "Attacks on the Right to Life and Physical Integrity". The hearing provided a forum for [...]
10 December 2020
by Antoine Harari
Kosiah: “You can jail me for a thousand years, I fear no one!”
The long-awaited trial of former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah began this week in the southern Swiss town of Bellinzona with questioning of the accused. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, where he has [...]
9 December 2020
by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Trust Fund: The black hole
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 2 The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) was initially conceived as an independent reparations body; the organisation that would provide the International Criminal Court-ordered reparations to victims. Bu [...]
8 December 2020
by Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
ICC Trust Fund: The headless chicken
ICC TRUST FUND SERIES - EPISODE 1 In 15 years, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims has struggled to develop its strategy. Its budget is opaque. Its output as limited as it is difficult to assess. Through cour [...]
7 December 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Election of the ICC Prosecutor: Here is your vote!
The result of the non-official vote organised by Justice Info on the sidelines of the upcoming International Criminal Court Prosecutor election is clear: British candidate Karim Khan is the big favourite of our readers with 34% of [...]
- International
- Special focus
4 December 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
ICC desperately seeking prosecutor
Who will be the third Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? The successor of Fatou Bensouda was to be a consensus candidate among a handful of finalists selected well in advance. But this well-ordered process was s [...]
4 December 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Constitutional Court says no to war crimes suspects
The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic has dashed the hopes of former president François Bozizé and a dozen other members of armed groups. Their candidacies in the 27 December elections were invalidated. Bozizé, [...]
3 December 2020
by Antoine Harari
Trial of Liberian Alieu Kosiah opens in Switzerland
Alieu Kosiah, a former Liberian warlord, is the first person to be tried in Switzerland for war crimes before a civil court. His trial has been repeatedly postponed. It opens on 3 December in Bellinzona in a tense atmosphere, afte [...]
1 December 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency
For a year under the military dictatorship, Major Lamin Bo Baaji was the director of Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Yet despite evidence put forward by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, he claimed [...]
30 November 2020
by Maud Sarliève
Corporate responsibility: Switzerland says no but the UN must say yes
The Swiss rejected legislation requiring multinationals to be responsible, at home and abroad, for environmental and human rights abuses related to their activities. As Maud Sarliève explains, Switzerland is thus moving away from [...]
27 November 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Australia’s wake-up call on war crimes
Execution of prisoners, a “blooding” practice where subordinates are ordered to kill out-of-action enemy combatants, a system of covering up war crimes, and “collective blindness” of the army hierarchy: the Brereton inquiry into a [...]
27 November 2020
by Julia Crawford
World watches as Swiss vote on “responsible business”
On November 29 the Swiss vote on a proposal that would make Swiss-based multinationals accountable for environmental crimes and human rights abuses in relation to their activities abroad. Here is how to understand an initiative th [...]
26 November 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian trial in Germany: The orders that came from the very top
In the Al-Khatib trial against two former secret service officers from Syria, a witness has provided confidential documents issued by the Syrian regime. They would prove that crimes were ordered from the highest government level – [...]