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.
Tunisia’s “Barraket Essahel” case and the tragedy of 244 soldiers
28 March 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
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 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
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
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 [...]
7 March 2019
by Alexander Prezanti and Simon Papuashvili
Putting an end to ICC inertia on Ukraine
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
Gambia’s Truth Commission shows it has teeth
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
Omar al-Bashir and the burden of the ICC
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
Is Syria giving universal jurisdiction new life?
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 [...]