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.
Raw truth of Swiss administrative detention finally made public
10 October 2019
by Julia Crawford
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
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
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 [...]
4 October 2019
by Claude Sengenya
Two weeks after Sylvestre Mudacumura's brutal "neutralization" by the Congolese army, voices are being raised on behalf of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo demanding justice for the victims by pursuing crimes of the [...]
3 October 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Does the Liberian president really want a war crimes court?
Under pressure to set up a special court to try crimes committed in the civil wars that ended 16 years ago, Liberian President George Weah has broken his silence on the issue. But his intentions are still in doubt.
1 October 2019
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Three years on, Colombians still await FARC public remorse
Exactly three years after the plebiscite that showed how divided Colombians are on the landmark peace deal that led to the disarming of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), millions of Colombians are still awa [...]
27 September 2019
by Inès Laure Ngopot
A Central African journalist at the ICC
Hearings of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Yekatom-Ngaïssona case are suspended until 11 October. The handful of Central African journalists who were able to attend in The Hague are back in Bangui. What impressions [...]
26 September 2019
by Gaël Grilhot
Central African courts outpace the ICC and Special Court
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
Zimbabwe: Mugabe is buried, not the past
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
Colombia: They were enemies, now they make laws together
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
Gambia: I betrayed the students injured by gunshots, confesses Dr Jallow
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 [...]