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.
Bukavu awaits militia leader’s judgment in troubled region
4 November 2019
by Claude Sengenya
The military court in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, will on 12 November hand down its verdict in the trial of militia leader Frédéric Masudi Alimasi, known as "Koko di Koko". He is on trial with four other men for [...]
1 November 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear testimonies about sexual abuse under the military regime of Yahya Jammeh. Witnesses have portrayed the former president as a sexual predator, includin [...]
31 October 2019
by Taha Siddiqui
Manzoor Pashteen, 25 years old, is leading a growingly powerful movement in Pakistan that claims justice for the Pashtuns, a population which counts tens of thousands of victims of terrorism and its repression since 9/11. To ackno [...]
29 October 2019
by Claude Sengenya
In Congo, braving fear to demand justice and reparation
Hundreds of victims are participating as civil parties in the trial of Fréderic Masudi Alimasi, known as "Koko di Koko". This militia leader has been appearing since late September for crimes against humanity before a military cou [...]
28 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s TRRC hears about sexual violence and torture against women
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has opened a session on gender-based violence. Several victims have testified about abuse, including rape, by paramilitary agents. Testimonies are now expected to narrow down on [...]
25 October 2019
by Janine Natalya Clark
Colombia: The Shifting Sands of Repairing Harm
How to ‘repair’ the multiple harms done to victims of the armed conflict in an environment where ongoing harms are occurring? This is one of the many challenges of transitional justice in Colombia. When a social and political mili [...]
24 October 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
More time to redress Colombia’s victims. The question is how.
In the midst of Colombia’s divisive transition, a rare political consensus emerged over the past two weeks, to extend the landmark 2011 bill that recognized victims of the armed conflict and set out specific measures to redress th [...]
24 October 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia’s specialized courts at a standstill
In a deserted courtroom, two victims recounted the arrests, brutal interrogations, torture and lay-offs that followed the strike of 26 January 1978. Yet this is one of the flagship cases transmitted by the Truth and Dignity Commis [...]
22 October 2019
by Grace Matsiko and Ephrem Rugiririza
ICC/Uganda: “Ongwen was and still is a victim,” says lawyer
For the past year, Ugandan Dominic Ongwen has been presenting his defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC). To date, more than 50 witnesses have testified in the defence of the former Lord's Resistance Army brigade co [...]
21 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh’s wealth to go to his victims
A first payment of about 1 million dollars to the new Reparations Fund of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has been made, announced Gambia’s Minister of Justice on October 7. This is taken from the seized asset [...]
18 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: top leader in 1994 coup admits to murder
Former Defense minister Edward Singhateh admitted ordering the execution of several soldiers on November 11, 1994, in his much-awaited testimony yesterday October 17 before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. A f [...]
15 October 2019
by Frédéric Ojardias
Why Seoul and Tokyo are still at war over the past
Relations between South Korea and Japan have been deteriorating at a worrying rate for several months. At the heart of the conflict is the duty of remembrance of the Japanese government, which is accused by its South Korean neighb [...]
14 October 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg
CAR II: Secret Story at the ICC, second season
In the Central African Republic case number 2, aka “CAR II”, the International Criminal Court prosecutor has presented an evidence largely marked by the seal of secrecy against two former militia leaders, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona [...]
11 October 2019
by Benjamin Bibas
Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Christel Cournil Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, co-author of “Les procès climatiques : entre le national et l’international” (2018). Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed [...]
10 October 2019
by Julia Crawford
Raw truth of Swiss administrative detention finally made public
At least 60,000 people were subject to forced “administrative detentions” or compulsory “welfare” measures, often abused and sexually assaulted, in Switzerland over much of the 20th century, according to a recent expert report, wh [...]
8 October 2019
by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
New rape trial near victims in eastern DRC
A Congolese military tribunal has since early September been trying a militia leader and four militia members in local hearings for numerous acts of rape committed in South Kivu. More than 190 victims of sexual violence are civil [...]
7 October 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president
Isatou Njie Saidy was Gambia’s vice-president during twenty years of the 22-year rule of Yahya Jammeh. Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission she admitted endorsing the order sending the army to crush a studen [...]