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’s full terror exposed before the TRRC
26 July 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
There seem to be no limit to what will be revealed before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This week, the first three members of former president Yahya Jammeh’s infamous hit squad – the Junglers – [...]
25 July 2019
by Tjitske Lingsma
For the first time a court in The Netherlands has convicted a Dutch-born former Islamic State fighter for war crimes. The case follows a trend in European countries, where the prosecution is using social media material as evidence [...]
23 July 2019
by Franck Petit
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Jean-Pierre Massias Professor of public law at the University of Pau and president of the Institut francophone pour la justice et la démocratie Indigenous peoples' access to transitional justice [...]
22 July 2019
by Maud Sarliève
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (4/4) Should massive deforestation be considered a crime? The destruction of tropical forests carries with it not only the destruction of the peoples they support, but also the destruction of human [...]
19 July 2019
by Luke Moffett
Reparations at the ICC: can it really serve as a model?
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (3/4) Reparations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be seen as an afterthought at the end of trial or, more cynically, as an incentive for victims to testify and support the work of the [...]
18 July 2019
by Jelena Aparac
Is criminal responsibility of companies the next focus for international justice?
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY SERIES (2/4) So far, States and courts have largely freed companies from direct or indirect responsibility for international crimes. Ending this impunity would restore the balance of power between resourc [...]
16 July 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Drumbl: "Law cannot solve the biggest problems we face"
SPECIAL WORLD DAY OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE (1/4) JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Drumbl Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University For twenty years, scholar Mark Drum [...]
15 July 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: “The media was the most persecuted institution under Jammeh”
It is the turn of journalists to be heard by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in the Gambia. In 22 years, 140 incidents of arrests and 15 arbitrary closures of media houses were recorded. There were cases of to [...]
12 July 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg and Amra Zejneli
Kosovo Specialist Chambers: gearing up for uncomfortable truths?
Everything seems to be in place for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers to issue its first indictment, four years after it was established. Investigations have gone for years, dozens of people have been interviewed in The Hague, where [...]
11 July 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier and Mustapha K. Darboe
Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?
Before speaking on behalf of the victims of serious crimes as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda faithfully served, in the highest judicial offices, a military dictatorship in her country, the Gam [...]
9 July 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg with Claude Sengenya
Ntaganda’s conviction, a sweeping win for the ICC Prosecutor
The conviction of Bosco Ntaganda, a former militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on July 8 comes as a relief for the Court’s prosecutor. It is also hailed as a victory for th [...]
8 July 2019
by Claude Sengenya
Arrest warrant for Congolese militia leader raises concern and suspicion
On June 7, the North Kivu Military Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant against rebel leader Shimirayi Mwisha Guidon, leader of an important militia group in this region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The C [...]
5 July 2019
by Barbora Hola
Early release of ICTR convicts: the practice beyond the outrage
For years, hardly anyone paid much attention to issues of incarceration, rehabilitation, release and reintegration of convicted génocidaires by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Until a year ago when the gover [...]
3 July 2019
by Kerstin Carlson
Al-Bashir and the ICC: is it worth getting your man, if you jeopardise your mission?
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for the immediate surrender of former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir for indictments dating back to 2009. But Kerstin Carlson warns that such a move would require colla [...]
2 July 2019
by Nader I. Diab
CAR’s Special Criminal Court should start preparing for reparations now
Almost a year after the adoption of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic, things seem to be moving forward with the recent announcement that several investigations could [...]
1 July 2019
by Fannie Lafontaine, Amanda Ghahremani and Catherine Savard
Canada’s genocide of Indigenous peoples: Time for decolonisation
On June 3, 2019, after three years of hearing thousands of stories of systemic and structural violence, Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Canad [...]
28 June 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Key junta member Touray puts Gambia's truth commission to the test
“This is the first time the powers of this Commission have been so blatantly challenged,” said the Lead Counsel of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on June 26. On that morning, Yankuba Touray, a key memb [...]
27 June 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh accused of rape
Three women accuse former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh of rape and sexual assault in a report published on June 26 by Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International. Their testimonies, as well as those of others who worked for Jamme [...]