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.
European justice strikes on crimes in Syria
21 February 2019
by Thierry Cruvellier
A new complaint was filed in Sweden on 19 February against some 20 Syrians suspected of international crimes. This complaint follows three arrests this month in Germany and France, a trial in absentia in the Netherlands and the co [...]
19 February 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The first public confession from a perpetrator and a visit to the headquarters of the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA) were the highlights of the past week at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) in [...]
18 February 2019
by Victoria Basualdo
In one month, on March 15, the Argentine judiciary will make public its reasoning behind one of the most significant cases it has tried in recent years. Last December, a court found three individuals, including two former top exec [...]
15 February 2019
by Julia Crawford
Switzerland’s war crimes unit was set up in 2012, following a change in the law the previous year that transferred responsibility for prosecuting international crimes from military to civil judicial authorities. But seven years on [...]
14 February 2019
by Charles Bouessel
CAR’s Special Court ignored by peace deal
A play is currently being staged around Bangui to raise awareness of the role of the Special Criminal Court, which is charged with prosecuting serious crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2003. But the peac [...]
13 February 2019
by AFP
Germany, France arrest 3 Syrians for crimes against humanity
The only jurisdictions before which crimes committed in Syria are investigated and tried are those of a few European countries. Germany and France are at the forefront of the offensive. And it is in those two countries that three [...]
12 February 2019
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: constant doubt and frustration in the Fayçal Baraket case
The trial in the case of Fayçal Baraket, who died under torture in October 1991, is postponed for the third time. The President of the Court did not appear at the hearing. The victim's family is still waiting for justice to be don [...]
11 February 2019
by Franck Petit
CAR: "A peace for the benefit of the government, not for the sake of justice"
40264_RCA_Accord-de-paix_Khartoum-fev-2019Télécharger The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) released on 8 February the peace agreement concluded the previous week in Khartoum with fourteen armed groups. This agreeme [...]
8 February 2019
by Roland Adjovi
Acquittal, innocence and lessons from Ivory Coast
The acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé by the International Criminal Court on 15 January highlights the paradoxical impact that legal proceedings can have on the political future of officials who are prosecuted and [...]
7 February 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When reparations can’t wait
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in Gambia keeps following its own singular path. Through high-profile and widely watched public hearings it seems to be running its investigations live instead of after t [...]
5 February 2019
by Stephanie van den Berg
Mass atrocities? There’s an app for that
There’s been an explosion in recent years of special apps launched by different NGOs to help witnesses and victims document atrocities. But it is difficult to track a parallel increase in successful prosecutions based on app-gener [...]
4 February 2019
by Janet H. Anderson
Liking genocide on Facebook
The social media network Facebook is 15 years old today. The role of the platform in fueling hate speech has been widely discussed recently. At the heart of it was the case of Myanmar, where Facebook was used in the campaign to fo [...]
31 January 2019
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Gbagbo – an acquittal foretold
On February 1, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court may decide if it confirms the release of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé-Goudé, who were acquitted on January 15 by a Trial Chamber. Scholar Thijs Bouwknegt goe [...]
29 January 2019
by Amy Niang
The justice conundrum of Central African Republic
What justice is possible in a climate of impunity and in times of war? Is there an alternative to lengthy and costly procedures and imprisonment? Special courts such as the Special Criminal Court in Central African Republic (CAR) [...]
28 January 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
A good medic under Gambia’s terror
The eighth witness before the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission was a man many former prisoners remembered with a smile. Babucarr Jatta had only been trained in first aid, but he was the one victims of tortu [...]
25 January 2019
by Frédéric Burnand
Catherine Marchi-Uhel: A strong signal to those committing crimes in Syria
More and more European countries, including Germany, France, Sweden and Austria, are prosecuting people for war crimes in Syria. One of the tools at their disposal is the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism created [...]
24 January 2019
by Pierre Hazan
Guantanamo: Into the heart of a judicial Frankenstein
Tortured prisoners, lawyers being spied on, redacted indictments (including for the judges), and the CIA deciding if debates should be public at Guantanamo. A recent analysis in the “Cahiers de la justice” review paints a monstrou [...]
22 January 2019
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission has continued to hear high-profile testimonies from ex-members of Yahya Jammeh’s former military junta. New details on the executions that took place on 11 November 1994 were off [...]
21 January 2019
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Rwanda: More cases in run-up to 25th genocide anniversary
In December, Belgium and France made several announcements on cases related to the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Almost 25 years after the massacres that took hundreds of thousands of lives in just three months, the judicial systems o [...]