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.
Putting an end to ICC inertia on Ukraine
7 March 2019
by Alexander Prezanti and Simon Papuashvili
On March 6, Simon Papuashvili of the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Alexandre Prezanti of Global Diligence LLP filed their fourth communication to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in [...]
6 March 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Two former high-level officials under the military regime were indicted in Gambia for allegedly tampering with a witness before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission. After two months of high-profile public hearings [...]
5 March 2019
by Benjamin Duerr
Ten years ago the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir over the atrocities in Darfur. What was hailed as a break-through for justice has become a liability for the [...]
4 March 2019
by Julia Crawford
Universal jurisdiction is on the upswing, particularly because of the situation in Syria, according to Swiss NGO TRIAL International. In its “Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review” released on March 4, the NGO makes a plea for more [...]
1 March 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Evidence at Gambia’s Truth Commission gets closer to former ruler
In the Gambia, two witnesses before the country’s Truth Commission, including the first confessed killer, have implicated former president Yahya Jammeh in ordering killings of soldiers in November 1994 and of a minister in June 19 [...]
26 February 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Mokhtar Trifi: It is the suspected perpetrators who are applying the transitional justice law!
Mokhtar Trifi, former president of the Tunisian Bar Association and of the Tunisian Human Rights League as well as vice-president of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), continues to represent victims before Tunisia’s sp [...]
25 February 2019
by Henok Gabisa
Ethiopia's red terror goes to court in the U.S.
On February 25, Nigussie Mergia will face a U.S. court. He is accused of lying about his past as an alleged civilian interrogator during the Red Terror in the late 1970s in Ethiopia. Though his trial is about immigration law, it i [...]
22 February 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
Andreas Schüller : Why justice on Syria is very dynamic
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Andreas Schüller Director of the International Crimes and Accountability Program at the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) There have been at least 13 trial [...]
21 February 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
European justice strikes on crimes in Syria
A new complaint was filed in Sweden on 19 February against some 20 Syrians suspected of international crimes. This complaint follows three arrests this month in Germany and France, a trial in absentia in the Netherlands and the co [...]
19 February 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
First confessions at Gambia’s Truth Commission
The first public confession from a perpetrator and a visit to the headquarters of the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) were the highlights of the past week at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) in [...]
18 February 2019
by Victoria Basualdo
The Ford case, 40 years later
In one month, on March 15, the Argentine judiciary will make public its reasoning behind one of the most significant cases it has tried in recent years. Last December, a court found three individuals, including two former top exec [...]
15 February 2019
by Julia Crawford
International Crimes : Spotlight on Switzerland’s war crimes unit
Switzerland’s war crimes unit was set up in 2012, following a change in the law the previous year that transferred responsibility for prosecuting international crimes from military to civil judicial authorities. But seven years on [...]
14 February 2019
by Charles Bouessel
CAR’s Special Court ignored by peace deal
A play is currently being staged around Bangui to raise awareness of the role of the Special Criminal Court, which is charged with prosecuting serious crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2003. But the peac [...]
13 February 2019
by AFP
Germany, France arrest 3 Syrians for crimes against humanity
The only jurisdictions before which crimes committed in Syria are investigated and tried are those of a few European countries. Germany and France are at the forefront of the offensive. And it is in those two countries that three [...]
12 February 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: constant doubt and frustration in the Fayçal Baraket case
The trial in the case of Fayçal Baraket, who died under torture in October 1991, is postponed for the third time. The President of the Court did not appear at the hearing. The victim's family is still waiting for justice to be don [...]
11 February 2019
by Franck Petit
CAR: "A peace for the benefit of the government, not for the sake of justice"
40264_RCA_Accord-de-paix_Khartoum-fev-2019Télécharger The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) released on 8 February the peace agreement concluded the previous week in Khartoum with fourteen armed groups. This agreeme [...]
8 February 2019
by Roland Adjovi
Acquittal, innocence and lessons from Ivory Coast
The acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé by the International Criminal Court on 15 January highlights the paradoxical impact that legal proceedings can have on the political future of officials who are prosecuted and [...]
7 February 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When reparations can’t wait
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in Gambia keeps following its own singular path. Through high-profile and widely watched public hearings it seems to be running its investigations live instead of after t [...]
5 February 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg
Mass atrocities? There’s an app for that
There’s been an explosion in recent years of special apps launched by different NGOs to help witnesses and victims document atrocities. But it is difficult to track a parallel increase in successful prosecutions based on app-gener [...]