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.
Lundin faces prosecution for Sudan oil war abuses
26 October 2018
by Julia Crawford
Sweden’s government has given the green light for the Public Prosecutor to charge two top executives of the Stockholm-based Lundin Petroleum company for assisting suspected crimes against humanity in Sudan between 1997 and 2003 by [...]
22 October 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
The Special Criminal Court’s inaugural session in Bangui today is mainly symbolic. But it should increase pressure on this new hybrid court created 16 months ago to present its investigating strategy and start work. The ceremony c [...]
19 October 2018
by Sareta Ashraph
Nadia Murad's Nobel Peace Prize comes at the right time to hopefully refocus attention on the Yazidis' struggle for justice and security. But for the Rohingyas it is worth looking at how the Yazidis managed to mobilize and write t [...]
18 October 2018
by Justice Info
Last spring, we published a video animation (the experts speak of "motion design") whose objective was to explain, in a simplified and pictorial way, the job as well as the mission of JuticeInfo.net. On the occasion of the redesig [...]
18 October 2018
by François Musseau
What purpose for a Spanish Truth Commission?
Spain’s Prime Minister has said he wants to establish a Truth Commission on the Franco years. Forty years after dictatorship was replaced by democracy, there is hot debate among historians about how useful such a commission would [...]
16 October 2018
by JusticeInfo.net
JusticeInfo.net gets a makeover: interview with Thierry Cruvellier
Thierry Cruvellier, the new editor-in-chief of JusticeInfo.net, presents the remodeled website: a fluid navigation, relevant content and understandable for all. He also introduces our new extensive network of local correspondents [...]
16 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Reed Brody: “We have the power to bring you to justice”
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Reed Brody Human rights lawyer Twenty years ago, on October 16, 1998, Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London for crimes committed under his rule. For international justi [...]
15 October 2018
by JusticeInfo.net
A new, more intuitive website for Justice Info
JusticeInfo.net, created by Fondation Hirondelle in 2015 to cover news about justice after mass violence, brings you a new version of its website to better inform specialists and give a voice to populations affected by these crime [...]
15 October 2018
by Claire Bargelès
What model for Gambia’s truth commission?
Gambia officially inaugurates its Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission this Monday October 15. The Commission is one of the key promises of President Adama Barrow after his election victory over Yahya Jammeh in Decembe [...]
10 October 2018
by Maud Sarliève
Can criminal courts help save the environment?
October 9 was a day of celebration for environmental activists. An appeals court in The Hague confirmed an order for the Dutch State to cut its CO2 emissions by at least 25% by 2020 compared with the levels of 1990. The judgment w [...]
10 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Céline Bardet: "The scourge of rape in conflict is a threat to peace"
JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Céline Bardet Director of the NGO We Are Not Weapons of War The award of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad, a survivor of sexual slavery perpetrated on Yezidi women by Islamic State i [...]
5 October 2018
by Claire Bargelès
Truth Commission meets with Gambians
Nearly two years after elections that ended the reign of dictator Yahya Jammeh, a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission will soon start work in Gambia. Its inauguration is scheduled for October 15. But for the moment, G [...]
4 October 2018
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisian victim gives chilling testimony in courtroom without sound
Torture victim and murder witness 53-year-old Bessma Baliî is a survivor of crimes committed under former Tunisian dictator Ben Ali. On September 28, she gave chilling testimony to the specialized transitional justice court in the [...]
1 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
CAR Special Court will not prosecute child soldiers
The Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic (CAR) will not prosecute child soldiers, a member of the prosecution said during a meeting with journalists in Bangui. This is a first indication of the strategy to be fol [...]
30 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African lawyers prepare for Special Criminal Court
Lawyers in the Central African Republic (CAR) are working to acquire the necessary expertise to operate at the Special Criminal Court, tasked with trying the most serious crimes committed in the country since January 1, 2003. They [...]
25 September 2018
by Benjamin Duerr
Latin American states to refer Venezuela to the ICC
Five Latin American countries are expected to follow through today with their plans to refer Venezuela to the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to diplomatic sources, they will ask prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an [...]
24 September 2018
by Stephanie van den Berg
Lebanon Tribunal: What is a trial without suspects for?
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is rounding up its case against four accused over the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and others. Closing arguments took place in The Hague between September 11 [...]
23 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Week in Review (from 17 to 22/09/2018)
What effects of the Trump government attack against the ICC? US security advisor John Bolton’s September 10 attack on the International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to make news. In an Op Ed for the New York Times of September 1 [...]
23 September 2018
by Claude Sengenya
New technology used in Congolese trial for first time
In a new success for Congolese military justice, two high ranking members of the FDLR militia active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were on September 21 found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes committ [...]