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.
This is not Myanmar’s path to peace
18 January 2018
by Frontier
Myanmar's government runs the risk of ceding so much control to the Tatmadaw (national army) that it simply becomes irrelevant to the peace process. The next 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference is supposed to be just a fe [...]
17 January 2018
by Aïssatou Barry in Conakry
In Guinea, investigations into the September 2009 massacre in Conakry have finally closed, seven years after the event. Announcing this on December 29, 2017, Guinean Justice Minister Cheik Sacko said the suspects have been refer [...]
15 January 2018
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
On January 5, 2018, Nepal’s cabinet decided to extend the tenure of the country’s two transitional justice (TJ) bodies for another year. But this was done without consulting primary stakeholders and without evaluating the work of [...]
14 January 2018
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.Net
On JusticeInfo.net, French jurist Didier Niewiadowski looks at what he calls “exception for insecurity”, a pretext used by African dictators to postpone elections indefinitely. The best example, he writes, is Joseph Kabila in the [...]
11 January 2018
by THOMAS MANCH | FRONTIER
For Muslims across Myanmar, citizenship rights a legal fiction
In Myanmar, members of the Muslim community are facing long delays in citizenship applications unless they acquiesce to officials’ suggestions that they be labelled “Bengali”. Ma Hnin Hlaing, a bright, young Bamar Muslim, cannot b [...]
7 January 2018
by AFP
War criminals: freed before serving out their jailtime
Before former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, several people convicted of crimes against humanity have been granted early release, from Nazis tried in Nuremberg to Argentinian military officers. - World War II - - Walther Fun [...]
3 January 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
As Yugoslav tribunal closes, a look back at its history
In his last speech to the UN Security Council on December 6, 2017, ICTY President Carmel Agius expressed satisfaction that out of 161 persons indicted, all have been tried or have died, representing a 100% success rate, although t [...]
3 January 2018
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
How the ICTY has changed our world
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) closed its doors on December 31, 2017, after working for 24 years, issuing 161 indictments and nearly as many judgments, hearing 4,600 witnesses over 10,800 days [...]
21 December 2017
by AFP
French judges finish probe into attack that sparked Rwanda genocide
French anti-terror judges have finished their investigation into the missile attack that sparked Rwanda's 1994 genocide and will now decide whether to send the highly sensitive case to trial, legal sources said Thursday. The missi [...]
21 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Nepal: Publish Commission Report on Terai Violence, says HRW
Authorities in Nepal should immediately make public the December 14, 2017 report of a special commission on the Terai violence in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. The High-Level Inquiry Commission was established in 2016 to i [...]
21 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
How the Yugoslav Tribunal Made History, according to HRW
Bullet holes, bloodstains and brain matter marked the walls of an empty barn, a crime scene processed to document the worst crime in Europe since the Second World War: the deliberate killings of more than 7,000 men and boys from t [...]
20 December 2017
by AFP
State agents, militia 'planned' DRC massacres: rights group
Security forces and an army-backed militia planned massacres in an opposition stronghold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, human rights activists charged Wednesday, calling the killings "crimes against humanity". The southern K [...]
20 December 2017
by Frontier
Reuters journalists arrests a damning reflection on the state of Myanmar's democratic transition
These are dark days for journalism in Myanmar. LET’S BE CLEAR: The detention of Reuters journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo is a brazen attack on the media and the principles of democracy. This is not about national security [...]
19 December 2017
by Human Rights Watch
South Sudan: Stop Delays on Hybrid Court, says HRW
South Sudan’s top officials have failed to make good on promises to establish an African Union-South Sudanese hybrid court to try international crimes committed during the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. Four [...]
18 December 2017
by AFP
In Myanmar, possibly 'genocide', says UN rights chief
The UN rights chief told AFP Monday that Myanmar clearly "planned" violent attacks on its Rohingya minority, causing a mass-exodus, and warned the crackdown could possibly amount to "genocide". "For us, it was clear... that these [...]
16 December 2017
by François Sergent and Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: DRC, Ethiopia and crime of aggression,
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a military court sitting in the little town of Kavumu struck a historic blow for transitional justice in a place where sexual violence and powerful people generally go unpunished. The week also [...]
16 December 2017
by AFP
UN says life terms for DRCongo child rapists a 'major advance'
The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday hailed as a "major advance" life sentences served this week on a provincial lawmaker and ten militiamen convicted of raping young girls. The group were jailed for life on [...]
14 December 2017
by Claude Sengenya in Kavumu, South Kivu province of eastern DRC
Historic verdict in DRC child rape trial
It was a historic verdict pronounced on Wednesday December 13 by a military court in South Kivu, eastern DR Congo, in the trial of some 20 members of the Army of Jesus militia (Jeshi la Yesu in Swahili) accused of rape and murder. [...]