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.
Céline Bardet: "The scourge of rape in conflict is a threat to peace"
10 October 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
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
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
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
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 [...]
20 September 2018
by Olfa Belhassine
The silence of the accused in Tunisia
In Tunisia, trials before specialized criminal chambers are due to resume on September 21. A Lawyers without Borders report based on observation of the nine trials already held stresses the absence of the suspects and the isolatio [...]
20 September 2018
by Janet H. Anderson
Dominic Ongwen, the imperfect poster child of the ICC
On September 18, the defence of Dominic Ongwen has begun to present its case before the International Criminal Court. Of the five leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army indicted by the ICC, Ongwen is the only one in the dock. [...]
18 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Why the ICC should rejoice when America attacks it
In an Op-ed for The New York Times, the editor of Justice Info, Thierry Cruvellier, unfolds the meaning of the renewed attack by the U.S. national security adviser John Bolton against the International Criminal Court (ICC). What's [...]
17 September 2018
by Pierre Hazan
Revising the past: A Swiss response to a global debate
To what extent should we take down statues, change the names of streets, towns and mountains when they bear the names of people who contributed to human misery? The spectacular removal in Charlottesville, US, of a statue of Genera [...]
13 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Namibians victim of genocide press for German apology
More than a century after massacres of indigenous people in former German South West Africa, now Namibia, their descendants and members of German civil society are pressing Berlin for an official apology. The recent returning of r [...]
13 September 2018
by Benjamin Duerr
Can John Bolton unite the friends of the ICC?
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is in the spotlights of global politics after John Bolton, the national security adviser of US President Donald Trump, lashed out at the court. He outlined a strategy to undermine the work of [...]
11 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Paris arrest a new step to justice for Liberian war crimes
2018 is a good year for the activists who have vowed they will not let the crimes committed in Liberia’s wars of the 1990s go unpunished. After two landmark judgments in the United States, they have now got another arrest in Paris [...]
10 September 2018
by Thierry Cruvellier
Week in Review: Myanmar regime and Liberian warlords under pressure
Judges of the International Criminal Court have stepped up pressure on the Myanmar regime by deciding that the court has jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed against the Rohingyas. The effect of this decision, rejected by th [...]
