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.
DRC: Outcry as indigenous people convicted for “wicked destruction of nature”
20 April 2020
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
Eight members of the Batwa ethnic group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were on February 4 given heavy sentences for “wicked destruction of nature” in a national park. The indigenous people are defending their right to acc [...]
17 April 2020
by Pierre Hazan
According to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, amnesty is - in theory - prohibited for perpetrators of serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. In practice, explains transitiona [...]
16 April 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Covid-19 is spreading fear everywhere, including prisons. Senegal has just provisionally released Hissène Habré, 78, who was sentenced to life in 2017 for crimes against humanity. Lawyers for other prisoners convicted by internati [...]
14 April 2020
by Thierry Cruvellier
Gibril Massaquoi, the main informer for the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), was arrested in Finland on 10 March. This is the first time that a UN court "insider" has been prosecuted by a national court wit [...]
10 April 2020
by Clémentine Méténier
Reunion’s transplanted children still waiting for justice
Between 1962 and 1984, 2,015 children and adolescents from Reunion Island were "transplanted" to mainland France. On 10 April 2018, a report commissioned by the French Ministry of Overseas Territories recommended reparations for t [...]
9 April 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
FARC’s kidnappings: from “retention” to criminal confinement
The legal case on kidnappings by FARC will be a major test for Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace – the judicial arm of the country’s transitional justice system. Two thousands victims have been accredited in the case. But [...]
- Colombia
- Special focus
9 April 2020
by JusticeInfo.net
Transitional Justice: The great Colombian challenge
No country in the world has conceived and decided to implement such comprehensive and multifaceted justice process as Colombia. This transitional justice was born out of the historic peace agreements, at the end of 2016, between t [...]
7 April 2020
by Thierry Cruvellier
The Massaquoi Affair: Special report on the Judas of Sierra Leone (Part 1)
Gibril Massaquoi, who was the top informer for the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, was arrested in Finland on March 10. Twelve years after getting asylum and protection measures, the former Sierra Leonean rebel c [...]
3 April 2020
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi Truth Commission exhumations caught up in elections
Burundians are expected to go to the polls in May, but exhumations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are causing controversy. The government is suspected of playing on ethnic differences in an attempt to unite the Hutu el [...]
2 April 2020
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Liberia war crimes: Belgian investigators drag feet on Martina Johnson
The pace of Belgian investigations into the role of alleged rebel commander Martina Johnson during the Liberian civil war is trying the patience of the defence and civil parties. Six years after the case was opened, investigations [...]
31 March 2020
by Claude Sengenya
DRC: Lubanga and Katanga freed for peace in Ituri
Two prisoners made famous by the International Criminal Court have both been freed from Makala prison in Kinshasa in the hope of bringing peace to one of the country’s most unstable regions -- Ituri, where the two men were once wa [...]
30 March 2020
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian President "can put dictatorship archives at centre of debate"
In the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, Farah Hached founded Labo Democratique, an NGO whose aim is to help consolidate a "living and innovative" democracy. Managing the archives of the dictatorship is central for Hached, who [...]
27 March 2020
by Julia Crawford
Looking to keep transitional justice archives safe? Call the Swiss
While the Dutch house international courts and support many transitional justice mechanisms around the globe, the Swiss offer the “after care” services by attracting the world's leading archival experts and, more rarely, by housin [...]
26 March 2020
by Jon Silverman
Asaba massacre memorial still in the pipeline in Nigeria
A thousand dead in three days. Even today, the name Asaba resounds in the memory of Nigerians as that of one of the great massacres of the Biafran war. But more than 52 years later, the defenders of a dignified memorial continue t [...]
24 March 2020
by Patsy Athanase
"The Seychelles Commission is not a court, it seeks to bridge divisions"
Before being appointed in 2019 as Chairperson of the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission (TRNUC) in the Seychelles, Australian jurist Gabrielle Louise McIntyre served at the UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in [...]
23 March 2020
by Mustapha K. Darboe, Patsy Athanase, and Andres Bermudez Lievano
Truth on pause in Gambia, Seychelles and Colombia
In the Gambia and the Seychelles truth commission hearings have been suspended last week due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Public hearings will not resume in the Gambia before early June, at the earliest, after Ramadan. It remains unc [...]
19 March 2020
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Can the Kosovo zombie court come to life?
You’re in lock-down? Listening Stayin’ Alive? May be the right time to finally seat down and learn and laugh about Kosovo’s « zombie court », as nicknamed by Justice Info’s apocalypse freak correspondents and partners, Janet Ander [...]
19 March 2020
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Political tussle over truth and memory in Colombia
Truth is purportedly the first casualty of war. It is also the object of constant wrangling in Colombia’s transition. While many Colombians are looking towards the Truth Commission to shed light on 52 years of conflict, President [...]