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.
The cost of lying to Gambia’s Truth Commission
15 April 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
After the first arrest and indictment of a witness before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission, two other soldiers whose testimonies were deemed untruthful were respectively sued for perjury and dismissed from the a [...]
12 April 2019
by AFP
This is another blow for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On April 12, ICC judges have rejected her request to investigate crimes committed in Afghanistan. It is « not in the interests of justice », they said. T [...]
12 April 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia_bill_transitional-justice-reconciliationTélécharger The draft of a bill aimed at putting an end to the transitional justice process is circulating within parliamentary groups. This draft envisages an amnesty for all cases [...]
11 April 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Warmly applauded by the audience of the Tunis Cinémathèque, a Spanish film called "The Silence of Others" has a special resonance for Tunisians. It evokes the denial of remembrance and justice on the Franco dictatorship and remind [...]
9 April 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: You’d better be truthful before the Truth commission
Last week, a former Army soldier was arrested and charged with murder in the Gambia. It was only two weeks after he had testified – in a way that was deemed uncooperative – before the country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation [...]
4 April 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier and Ephrem Rugiririza, Justiceinfo.net
Rwanda: The most judged genocide in history
Never before in the history of international justice has a mass crime been judged so much or in so many places as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda against the Tutsis. Rwanda set up more than 12,000 courts to ensure that no one would es [...]
3 April 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Gourevitch: living in Rwanda with the genocide (somewhat) behind - Part 1
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Gourevitch Journalist at The New Yorker and author For the first time Rwandans can look at being in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide with the genocide somewhat behind them, says jo [...]
3 April 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Gourevitch: “The aftermath of genocide is much harder to understand and therefore to write about” - Part 2
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Gourevitch Journalist at The New Yorker and author Journalist and writer Philip Gourevitch has kept going back to Rwanda for 24 years. In this second part of an interview with Justiceinfo [...]
1 April 2019
by Victoria Basualdo
The Ford Trial in Argentina, a workers’ victory
On March 15, an Argentine court issued its reasoning behind one of the most significant cases tried in recent years, in which three individuals were found guilty of crimes against humanity, including two former top executives of t [...]
28 March 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s “Barraket Essahel” case and the tragedy of 244 soldiers
In 1991, former President Ben Ali tried to decapitate the army by accusing 244 of its most brilliant soldiers of plotting against the stability of his regime. The third hearing in this so-called "Barraket Essahel" case has just ta [...]
26 March 2019
by Frédéric Burnand
China moves to keep its repression of minorities from investigation
China has always taken care to ensure it was not targeted by UN human rights bodies. It long worked behind the scenes, but under Xi Jinping Chinese diplomacy is out in the open. A recent example was in Geneva, where the issue of i [...]
22 March 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s searching the truth on summary executions
The Truth Commission has gone deeper into the November 1994 killings of soldiers. But there are doubts as to whether perpetrators are telling the whole truth. Meanwhile, the Commission has started its forensic work, even if it has [...]
20 March 2019
by AFP
Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic's sentence increased to life
A maximum penalty sentence concludes one of the biggest, longest and most important cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Judges of the UN mechanism that deals with the ICTY remaining cases [...]
19 March 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg
Karadzic: last chapter of a mega trial at the Yugoslav tribunal
On Wednesday, Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic, 73, will hear if his 40-year-jail term is confirmed, increased to a life sentence as prosecutors demand or if he gets the retrial his lawyers are seeking. This [...]
- Rwanda
- Special focus
17 March 2019
by JusticeInfo.net
Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide
Twenty-five years ago, between April and July 1994, Tutsis in Rwanda were victims of genocide. JusticeInfo joins the commemorations by publishing over the coming weeks numerous articles, interviews, maps and reports.
15 March 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Alain Godonou: "We need an international convention to return African art"
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Alain Godonou Director of the Museums Programme at the National Agency for Heritage Promotion and Tourism Development in Benin Founder and first director of the School of African Heritage, Benin [...]
14 March 2019
by Maud Sarliève
Ecuador: toxic justice and tourism by Texaco waste pools
Between 2011 and 2018, the highest courts in Ecuador found the oil company Chevron-Texaco responsible for the massive pollution of the Lago Agrio region, destroying much of the life of the local communities. A Permanent court of a [...]
12 March 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Picture exhibition displays Gambian former dictator’s abuse
Two years after Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh left power and took asylum in Equatorial Guinea, British freelance photographers Jason Florio, Helen Jones Florio and American Katherine Taylor have compiled dozens of photogra [...]
12 March 2019
by Janet H. Anderson
Plot twists at the ICC for Jean-Pierre Bemba
Imagine you’re a fabulously wealthy African politician: stocks, shares, businesses with your family and associates, money stashed all over the place, planes, boats and villas. Then imagine that your life is turned upside down for [...]