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.
Latin American states to refer Venezuela to the ICC
25 September 2018
by Benjamin Duerr
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
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
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
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 [...]
5 September 2018
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia and the Struggle for Individual Rights, an interview with Slim Laghmani
Emerging from dictatorship also requires legal reforms. In Tunisia, the report of the Commission on individual liberties and equality (Colibe) has sparked controversy by challenging the established social order, especially on equa [...]
3 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African human rights defenders say no to amnesty
As talks are announced in the Central African Republic between the government and armed groups, the country’s human rights organizations and their international partners such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the In [...]
2 September 2018
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Week in Review: Congolese warlord’s trial ends, Burmese generals accused of genocide
In The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week concluded its hearings in the trial of former Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda. And in New York, UN experts called for international prosecution of top Burmese [...]
30 August 2018
by AFP
Congolese rebel says he is a 'revolutionary' not a criminal
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda told international judges Thursday he was a "revolutionary and not a criminal" as arguments drew to a close in his three-year war crimes trial. Ntaganda, aged around 44, is accused of overseeing ma [...]