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.
Central African courts outpace the ICC and Special Court
26 September 2019
by Gaël Grilhot
Bangui’s Criminal Court on Monday tried a former chief of the Seleka rebellion for crimes against humanity and war crimes, while in The Hague a confirmation of charges hearing was held against two former leaders of the Anti-Balaka [...]
25 September 2019
by Zenzele Ndebele and Lesley Moyo
The state funeral for former president Robert Mugabe took place on September 14 in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city. He will never have to answer the crimes committed under his regime. And despite the creation of a truth commission [...]
24 September 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
They both met as newly elected Congressmen and forged an improbable partnership. Ómar Restrepo and César Eugenio Martínez are on the opposite sides of Colombia’s political scene. One is from the former leftist guerrilla of the FAR [...]
23 September 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The order came from the State House, she explained. On September 19, before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, Dr Mariatou Jallow confessed that she seized the medical records of students who had been shot by th [...]
20 September 2019
by Victoria Yan
Lebanon: new indictment, old troubles
On September 16, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon disclosed a second indictment, eight years after its first one on the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. The new indictment deals with three othe [...]
19 September 2019
by Maxence Peniguet
Gbagbo/Blé Goudé: why Judge Herrera-Carbuccia refused to acquit them
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has just appealed the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé. Seven months after the oral decision to acquit former President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and his M [...]
17 September 2019
by Maxence Peniguet
Why the ICC acquitted Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has just appealed the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé. Seven months after the oral decision to acquit former President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and his M [...]
16 September 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
First ICTR review trial for former Rwandan minister Ngirabatware
Augustin Ngirabatware is the first person convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to obtain a review hearing on his judgment. From 16 to 27 September, the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) w [...]
12 September 2019
by Gaël Grilhot
Central Africans discretely consulted on Truth Commission
Without publicity, national consultations have been taking place since June 2019 in (almost) the entire Central African Republic to help define the future Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission.
10 September 2019
by Pierre Hazan
Yasukuni Shrine heats up Tokyo-Seoul tensions
How much can the past of the Japanese occupation in Korea poison relations between Tokyo and Seoul? The Yasukuni Shrine, embodiment of a past that is still present, has since August 15 become once again the symbolic epicentre of a [...]
9 September 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombian transition gets confusing with a disarmed FARC and an armed one
A week ago, a minority group of leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) surprised Colombians by announcing that they would no longer honour the peace agreement signed in 2016. A significant blow to a pe [...]
6 September 2019
by Franck Petit
Finland to set up Truth Commission for the Sami people
The Sami people have lived since early times in the vast northern territories of Scandinavia, where some still make a living from herding reindeer and from fishing. Like the indigenous people of Canada and other big democracies, [...]
5 September 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: twenty years later, student victims are still crying out for justice
Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in The Gambia took a break to go and meet the diaspora, it started to hear testimonies on the repression of a student protest that led to the death of at least fourteen s [...]
3 September 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia's Truth Commission vs France, the IMF and World Bank
On July 16, Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) sent two memorandums calling first on France and then on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to apologize and pay reparations to Tunisian victims. It says they al [...]
2 September 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Sexual violence, the new punching bag in the Colombian transition (Part 2)
Victims of sexual violence have different expectations in Colombia, and the strategies of the transitional justice system do not always satisfy them. How to address these crimes before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace? Are ordin [...]
30 August 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Sexual violence, the new punching bag in the Colombian transition (Part 1)
The number of registered victims of sexual violence in relation to the armed conflict in Colombia has jumped fivefold in the past 5 years. Given the former FARC’s increasingly documented record of sexual abuse, the discussion has [...]
29 August 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Congo’s Kasai region demands justice
Three years after the outbreak of bloody violence in the Kasai region, Congolese justice is wavering in tackling it. Tired of waiting, the victims are calling for the country’s new president, Félix Tshisekedi, to intervene so nati [...]
27 August 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers
Late July a few former members of the Junglers, a group of hitmen under the military regime, testified before the Truth, reconciliation and reparations Commission in Gambia. They confessed to many killings. Within days, their rele [...]