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.
Tunisia and the repression of left-wing youth
28 February 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
In the 1960s and 1970s, young Tunisian students joined the extreme left to oppose the absolute power of President Bourguiba. They were called "Perspectivists". They suffered the worst abuses. Nearly 50 years later, a specialized c [...]
27 February 2020
by Enrica Picco
The Central African parliament is this week meeting to vote on a bill creating a Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TJRRC) to "establish the truth about serious national events since 1959". But the TJRRC is [...]
25 February 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Since the start of its public hearings in January 2019, the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed multiple abuses perpetrated by all security services under Yahya Jammeh's regime. Last week, a Gambi [...]
24 February 2020
by AFP
The Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers filed the first indictments against Kosovo officials for crimes committed during the war of independence more than 20 years ago. Five years after the establishment of this so-called [...]
24 February 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How Guantanamo came to haunt the U.S. at the ICC
There are still 40 men held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo. Without direct access to them, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, a U.S.-based organization, are using their stories of abuse and illegal dete [...]
24 February 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ongwen trial: can the victims see a light at the end of the road?
What can happen after this, for the communities? This week at the International Criminal Court (ICC), prosecution and defence will be presenting their final arguments in the long distance trial of Dominic Ongwen, a former commande [...]
24 February 2020
by Jasmina Brankovic
Socioeconomic oppression and the need to rethink transitional justice
In South Africa, organized survivors of apartheid violations have increasingly focused on socioeconomic issues. There are continuities, they note, between the colonial and apartheid past and the democratic present. While building [...]
21 February 2020
by Paola Diaz
Neither dead nor alive: Mexican mothers seek their missing loved ones
In 2017, Mexico approved a law on Disappearance of Persons and Disappearances Committed by Individuals, which aims to curb “multi-actor” disappearances. But this law is far from effective. Between 2006 and January 2019, the Nation [...]
20 February 2020
by Marie-Laure Josselin
Canada’s Indigenous children and the price of reconciliation
More than four years after the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which child welfare was a key point, Canada’s government is reluctant to pay for Indigenous victims of decades-long policies affecting children. [...]
18 February 2020
by Patsy Athanase
Seychelles Truth Commission: elusive truth on coup d’Etat killings
Why were two killings on June 5, 1977, the day of France-Albert René’s coup d’Etat, not investigated and prosecuted? And why did the families never receive compensation from the national Fund? On February 14, the Seychelles Truth, [...]
17 February 2020
by Claude Sengenya
Will Tshisekedi act against impunity for serious crimes in Congo?
One year after his inauguration, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi has not made any strong gesture against impunity for serious crimes, say civil society organizations. They urge that prosecutions for international crimes, whic [...]
14 February 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The Supreme Islamic Council pointed at for its obedience to Jammeh
Their turn may come in response to criticism when the hearings of the Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission resume on Monday, 17 February. The leaders of the Supreme Islamic Council were seriously questioned fo [...]
13 February 2020
by Franck Petit
Sudan: If Al-Bashir can’t go to the ICC, will the ICC go to Al-Bashir?
48 hours after the stunning news that Sudan’s ex-president Omar Al-Bashir would be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has been trying to arrest him for 11 years, the situation is not so straightforward. I [...]
11 February 2020
by Rachel Rushby
Is political populism a threat to transitional justice in Colombia?
Three years after the signing of the Final Peace Agreement between FARC-EP guerrilla group and the Colombian government, could politically motivated criticism of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace derail transitional justice? Rach [...]
11 February 2020
by Meris Musanovic and Arolda Elbasani
Can the Kosovo Specialist Chambers do better than its predecessors?
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers are the latest, contested attempt at delivering justice for unpunished war crimes since the 1999 conflict. Their many predecessors have tried, but largely failed to bring justice to the victims, say [...]
10 February 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why the acquitted Gbagbo must fight to be free?
As the 2020 presidential campaign kicks off in Ivory Coast, former head of state Laurent Gbagbo, who was acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) more than a year ago, went back before the judges on Thursday 6 February, [...]
10 February 2020
by Gaël Grilhot
Central African Republic: National court gets tough on Bangassou crimes
A verdict was handed down in Bangui on Friday, 7 February after an exceptional trial. Five Anti-balaka militia leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Bangassou (south-ea [...]
7 February 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian government to “respond to all TRC demands”
There is a wind of change in Tunisia following several announcements hailed by civil society: upcoming publication in the Official Journal of the truth commission’s report and list of the injured and martyrs of the 2010-2011 democ [...]
5 February 2020
by Grégory Leberger
Central African Republic: Ambitious truth commission plans
It has been a long time in preparation, but a draft law for creation of a Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission was officially presented to President Faustin Archange Touadéra on January 22. Justice Info examine [...]