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.
Sheka gets life in jail in landmark Congolese judgment
24 November 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
On 23 November, Congolese military justice sentenced former militia leader Ntabo Ntaberi, alias Sheka, to life for war crimes. This is a major success for victims in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, especially women.
23 November 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Three parties and a president have produced bills aimed at national reconciliation, often driven by the desire to interrupt or even reverse the transitional justice process. They mark a failure on the part of politicians, and show [...]
20 November 2020
by Stéphanie Maupas
The process of electing the third prosecutor of the International Criminal Court remains chaotic and suspenseful. In the absence of consensus on one of the four candidates selected at the end of June, the bureau of the 123 States [...]
19 November 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
There have been a series of arrests in Europe in recent months of Rwandans accused of participating in the 1994 genocide. After Félicien Kabuga in France, three people were arrested in Belgium in October and another one in the Net [...]
17 November 2020
by Franck Petit
ICC Prosecutor’s election: in December, “potentially no candidate will be nominated”
Four weeks ahead of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court, no agreement has been reached on a candidate to succeed Fatou Bensouda as Prosecutor. Yesterday 15 November, the ASP Secretariat announc [...]
16 November 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people”
In his 22-year rule, Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh allegedly put down several coups. In their aftermaths, the purported participants made confessions on television. Details of how these were obtained and how political opp [...]
13 November 2020
by Julia Crawford
Restitution of cultural property: Do you have to go to court?
In the era of “Black Lives Matter” and the toppling of colonial statues, there is increased demand for restitution of cultural property seized or looted during colonization, often stored in Western museums and sometimes used for s [...]
12 November 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian torture trial: the “Caesar” files in court for the first time
Last week in Koblenz, the renowned “Caesar” files were used as evidence in a court of law, for the first time. A forensic expert testified in the Al-Khatib trial, after having analysed the dead bodies in more than 50,000 photos. H [...]
10 November 2020
by Janet H. Anderson
Gicheru: back to the heart of darkness in the ICC's Kenyan case
Special edition - podcast and article. In a surprise move Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru has appeared, on November 6 at the International Criminal Court, to face allegations of bribing witnesses. His case will remind the prosecution o [...]
9 November 2020
by Maud Sarliève
Multinationals and human rights: do states understand the urgency of a treaty?
Compel multinationals to respect human rights: a draft international treaty, sponsored by the United Nations, has been under discussion for the last six years. The sixth round of negotiations ended on October 30th and there is no [...]
6 November 2020
by Kira Walker
War, law and biodiversity: a race against time
November 6 is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Biodiversity is in free fall globally, declining faster than at any other moment in human history. Current global ef [...]
6 November 2020
by Una Hajdari
With president Thaçi and three former KLA in the dock, Kosovo Chambers can start
This is the first time a sitting president surrenders to an international court. Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi resigned around noon Thursday November 5, after announcing that his indictment was confirmed by the Kosovo Specialist C [...]
5 November 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
FARC revelations on three political murders: a test for Colombia
The former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia dropped a bombshell, last month, claiming responsibility over the murders of three high-profile public officials in the 1990s. As missing truths begin emerging, they’re testing whe [...]
3 November 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
In DRC, reparations still a dream for victims of mass crimes
In a country riddled with corruption, Congolese military justice appears to have set an example by convicting soldiers found guilty of serious crimes. This is nevertheless marred by failure to implement reparation orders, accordin [...]
2 November 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Junglers were the two main weapons of Yahya Jammeh’s regime in Gambia. In the past two weeks, the country’s Truth Commission hearings on the NIA have provided a rare insight into the [...]
29 October 2020
by Hannah El-Hitami
The Yazidi trial in Germany: How to prove genocide in a single case?
Little attention has been paid to a trial in Germany that could yet be the first to recognize as genocide the crime committed by Daesh against Iraq’s Yazidis. With one eyewitness, no dead body and a previous conviction in Iraq, th [...]
27 October 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How does the ICC Al Hassan trial start, and for whom?
Al Hassan, a former member of the Islamic police in Timbuktu, is the second Malian jihadist on trial at the International Criminal Court, six thousand kilometres away from the scene of the war crimes and crimes against humanity he [...]
27 October 2020
by Una Hajdari
Welcome to Kosovo’s judicial battleground
A damaging leak of documents on criminal investigations followed by three swift arrests: in the space of a couple of weeks in September, the work of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a hybrid tribunal based in The Netherlands, has t [...]
26 October 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia
Dr Tamsir Mbowe, a former Health Minister, was a highly expected witness before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. In 2007 he was the director of former president Yahya Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme [...]