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.
21 October 2017
by François Sergent and Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
This week saw transitional justice faced once again with classic tensions between law and politics, justice and peace. As the ICC, supposed to be the “police force” of international justice, came under more fire, a US court delive [...]
19 October 2017
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
A court in Philadelphia on Wednesday found Mohammed Jabbateh (“Jungle Jabbah”) guilty of charges related to atrocities committed during the first Liberian civil war (1989-96). His two-week trial was the first time that Liberian wa [...]
19 October 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
The conflicting parties’ alliance (Nepali Congress and Maoist Centre) to share power in the government has destroyed the norms of justice and the agenda set by the Peoples’ Movement. They abused their authority without addressing [...]
18 October 2017
by Sean Gleeson, Frontier
One of Myanmar’s leading non-state armed groups has urged the government to find a “politically dignified and nonviolent” resolution to the humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State, warning that failure to do so could jeopardise the g [...]
18 October 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
ICC scandal: Who is watching the sheriff?
A consortium of media known as the European Investigative Collaboration (EIC), of which French investigative website Mediapart is a member, has revealed certain facts that are embarrassing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...]
18 October 2017
by André Guichaoua
Elections in Africa: democratic rituals matter even though the outlook is bleak
The multi-party systems established in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia in the early 1990s have endured despite electoral violence. But democratic hopes have been dashed or perverted throughout the rest of the region. The governments bu [...]
18 October 2017
by Aileen Kimutai, Nairobi
Is judicial wrangling fuelling Kenya's election turmoil?
Kenya's annulled presidential elections have thrown the country into the worst political crisis since the 2008 post-election violence which saw over 1,000 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Tension is high as the s [...]
18 October 2017
by AFP
Criminal justice a rare commodity in Central African Republic
At Bouar appeal court, presiding judge Aime Pascal Delimo twiddles his thumbs, surveys his empty office and then, with a sigh, closes his door to leave early. Delimo wields jurisdiction over territory in western Central African Re [...]
17 October 2017
by ICTJ
Is the United States Ready for a Truth-Telling Process?
Fania Davis thinks the time has come for a truth-telling process about racial injustice in the United States. A noted activist and the founding director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), Davis has confronted systema [...]
15 October 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Human rights activist awarded as dictators cling on
As we saw this week, transitional justice still appears far from countries such as Togo, Egypt and Burundi, whose people are still struggling under authoritarian regimes disrespectful of human rights and fundamental freedoms. In T [...]
11 October 2017
by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
Persecuted Egyptian activist wins human rights award
Egyptian Mohamed Zaree on Tuesday received in Geneva the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. The award honours his commitment despite personal risk. It also serves as a protest against the Egyptian Presiden [...]
10 October 2017
by Sean Gleeson, Frontier
Courts in Myanmar ‘unequipped’ to administer justice, says report
A new report has delivered a damning indictment of Myanmar’s judicial system, detailing judges sleeping through during testimony, defendants coerced into pleading guilty and most cases going to trial before legal counsel was organ [...]
8 October 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Scandal at the ICC, questions on Burundi and Mali
The International Criminal Court is rocked by a huge scandal implicating its first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, while the Central African Republic pursues its difficult quest for justice and the suffering continues of Burundi’s [...]
8 October 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Scandal rocks International Criminal Court
An enormous scandal has hit the International Criminal Court (ICC). After six months of investigations, eight international media of the European Investigative Collaboration (EIC) have produced findings that seriously undermine th [...]
4 October 2017
by JusticeInfo.net
“Embattled Burundi government using impoverished people as a rampart”
In Burundi, repression has been directed at all democrats in the country since 2015, even if there has been some ethnic targeting, according to French sociologist and African Great Lakes specialist André Guichaoua. He says the cor [...]
3 October 2017
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Liberian war victims to testify in US “Jungle Jabbah” case
The trial has begun in the United States of Liberian national Mohammed Jabbateh (“Jungle Jabbah”), a Pennsylvania resident suspected of war crimes. The former ULIMO rebel commander is charged with two counts of fraud in immigratio [...]
3 October 2017
by HRW
Syria : “These are the Crimes we are Fleeing”
Over the last six years the Syrian crisis has claimed the lives of an estimated 475,000 people as of July 2017, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. All sides to the conflict have committed serious crimes under in [...]
1 October 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Week in Review: Transitional justice under pressure in Tunisia and Myanmar
The difficulties of transitional justice were illustrated this week in countries as diverse as Tunisia, Burundi, Myanmar and Nepal. In Tunisia, a JusticeInfo investigation showed how abuses by the President of the Truth and Digni [...]
1 October 2017
by Frédéric Burnand, correspondent in Geneva
Outrage at Suu Kyi over Rohingya crisis is “exaggerated”, says expert
The crisis that has been taking place in Myanmar since August – an attack by Muslim rebels, bloody clampdown by the army and flight to Bangladesh of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya people – has provoked outrage across the [...]