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.
What NGOs expect from the ICC annual meeting
2 December 2019
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Addressing budgetary issues, pushing for an independent expert review, finding a new prosecutor, selecting new judges (especially women), fighting back threats and sanctions by hostile states (especially the U.S.), voicing out the [...]
2 December 2019
by Jojo Mehta
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (1/3) Ecocide, a Vietnam war ‘veteran’ concept used to describe the destruction caused by Agent Orange, is also the 5th missing element of crime of the Rome Statute, dropped from the International Crim [...]
29 November 2019
by Jean-Pierre Massias and Magalie Besse
Widespread impunity prevailing in the Central African Republic applies in particular to sexual and gender-based crimes, which are increasingly documented and recorded. As criminal prosecution can only be limited in the absence of [...]
28 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Dozens of people from the northwest Rwandan village of Mataba have travelled thousands of kilometres to testify before the Brussels criminal court trying Fabien Neretse, a man of influence in Mataba now accused of war crimes and g [...]
26 November 2019
by Justice Info
Justice Info's ASP external event: Ecocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEEcocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis A Justice Info debate THE HAGUE, DECEMBER 3, 2019 - 6:30 PM - GRAND CAFÉ UTOPIE CONTEXT Calls for environmental justice are increasing. Along [...]
25 November 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi: the commission of divided truths
Its detractors blame its composition, mandate and way of working, starting with the selective exhumations carried out throughout the country. Established in 2014 and extended for four years in 2018, Burundi's Truth and Reconciliat [...]
22 November 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission and Yahya Jammeh’s witch hunters
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has begun to hold hearings outside Gambia’s capital city. It is touring villages where hundreds of citizens were victims in 2009 of mysterious witch hunters. Forced to drink a s [...]
21 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Killings in Nyamirambo: "Someone from Neretse's house was there!”
The Brussels Assize Court has heard, over two and a half days, witnesses to the 9 April 1994 massacre in the Nyamirambo district of Kigali, in which the accused Fabien Neretse is implicated. Ten people were shot dead that day by s [...]
20 November 2019
by Claude Sengenya
DRC: militia leader sentenced to life for crimes against humanity
After two months of trial, the verdict has been handed down. Militia leader Frederic Masudi Alimasi, aka “Koko di koko”, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday, November 19, by the military court of Bukavu (Eastern Democrat [...]
15 November 2019
by Julia Crawford
Corporate responsibility in war crimes, a new legal battlefield
NGOs suffered a big setback last week when a French court dismissed a charge against Lafarge of complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria. But they are increasingly active in trying to get companies and businessmen prosecuted [...]
14 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
I risked my life for a Tutsi, Neretse tells Belgian court
Fabien Neretse, 71, told a Brussels court this week he played no part in the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. He said he did not denounce his Tutsi neighbours in Kigali or train Interahamwe militia as he is accused, and that the pro [...]
12 November 2019
by Patsy Athanase
The Seychelles Truth Commission hears about the 1977 coup
On November 5, former president of the Seychelles islands James Michel testified about the coup d’état in which he was involved on June 5, 1977. His testimony took place before the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commissi [...]
11 November 2019
by Janet H. Anderson
Stop genocide against the Rohingya, Gambia asks the ICJ
Gambia today referred Myanmar to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing genocide against the Rohingya minority, on behalf of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation's 57 Muslim-majority states. The action i [...]
11 November 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Battle of testimonies in Yankuba Touray’s trial
The trial of former Junta member Yankuba Touray has opened before the high court in Gambia. Touray is accused of the murder of former minister of Finance Ousman Koro Ceesay. Witnesses and statements before the Truth Commission are [...]
8 November 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The first FARC mayor’s dilemma for Colombia’s transitional justice
On October 27, former guerrilla commander Guillermo Torres became the first ex-FARC member to win a local election after the 2016 peace agreement in Colombia. His case is a litmus test for the way sanctions may apply in the transi [...]
7 November 2019
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Trial of Rwandan genocide suspect Fabien Neretse opens in Belgium
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office describes Fabien Neretse as a planner of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. A former prominent figure from north-western Rwanda, he is suspected of having helped to carry out a massacre in Kiga [...]
5 November 2019
by Franck Petit
Françoise Mathe: The traps of universal jurisdiction
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Françoise Mathe Criminal lawyer at the Toulouse Bar and co-founder of Lawyers without Borders (ASF) France This Thursday, November 7, a new universal jurisdiction trial opens in Brussels against [...]