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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.

Week in Review: Surprise clampdown on corruption in Tunisia
29 May 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Tunisia remains in the forefront of transitional justice with a surprise move this week on financial transparency. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed arrested suspected leaders of trafficking and corruption. These people are talked abo [...]
A "stirring documentary about ethnic cleansing on Myanmar's 'Buddhist Bin Laden'
24 May 2017 by AFP
Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power, when corpses would wash up every morning on the shores of Lake Victoria and Kampala was rife with rumours that he was eating his opponents. B [...]
“In CAR, the Touadera regime has totally lost credibility amongst the population"
22 May 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Recent developments in the Central African Republic (CAR), where more than a hundred civilians and some half a dozen UN peacekeepers were killed this week in new violence, look like warning signs of political rebellion in a contex [...]
Week in Review: Transitional justice is “an art not a science”
22 May 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
In an excellent new book, our colleagues at American NGO ICTJ recognize that transitional justice is “an art, not a science”. The International Center for Transitional Justice, a specialist in the field, says that “part of the art [...]
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22 May 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal : Politicisation of the supreme court and its impact on justice process in transition The first women chief justice of the Supreme Court, Shushila Karki, was an independent and strong chief justice who was against the political influence or unwanted interference in judiciary. She has challenged the powerholders thr [...]
19 May 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
New ICTJ book promotes tailored approach to transitional justice “Justice Mosaics” is the almost poetic title of a welcome new book on transitional justice by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an American NGO that is specialist in the field. This 400-page book, which can [...]
19 May 2017 by AFP
Two charged for 2004 murder of Gambian journalist Hydara Two fugitive former army officers have been indicted over the 2004 murder of prominent Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara, judicial sources said. The court in Banjul also separately issued an arrest warrant for ex-interior minister O [...]
18 May 2017 by AFP
Campaigners want banana firm probed over Colombia war Campaigners on Thursday demanded the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate executives of a US banana firm over alleged links to crimes against humanity in Colombia's civil war. The Human Rights Coalition "called on the Pr [...]
18 May 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Chiquita “contributed” to Colombian paramilitary crimes, ICC told Human rights organizations are asking the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to include managers of Chiquita Brands International Inc. in her preliminary examination on Colombia. The International Federation for [...]
17 May 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Which court for which crimes in the Central African Republic? The Central African Republic (CAR) is still torn by militia violence and is struggling to rebuild after the 2012-2014 civil war, which left some 5,000 people dead and turned nearly 900, 000 Central Africans into refugees and displ [...]
15 May 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: CAR appoints Special Court judges as amnesty debate continues The transitional justice week was again dominated by the Central African Republic (CAR), where there is a recurring debate on “impunity” for the parties to the country’s conflict – in the name of peace and reconciliation for some, [...]
12 May 2017 by AFP
Gambia's 'broken' justice system struggles with victims' ire Gambians want swift justice for the crimes of fallen dictator Yahya Jammeh's regime but the new government faces an uphill battle to jail the most prolific abusers. Silenced for 22 years, victims shot or tortured by Jammeh's secur [...]
10 May 2017 by Marija Ristić
New Kosovo Court Pledges to Finally Prosecute Ex-Guerrillas The new special court will try to make up for the failures of several international efforts to bring former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to justice for 1990s crimes, but witness protection, legitimacy and outreach remain key ch [...]
9 May 2017 by Gehan Gunatilleke
Can Memorialisation Generate Public Demand for Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil war in the North and East of the country, along with an insurrection in the South, witnessed the death and disappearance of thousands. Despite these egregious events, the Sri Lankan state has failed [...]
9 May 2017 by Steve Tickner/ Frontier
Myanmar: The life of a Kachin soldier Conflict between the Myanmar army and the rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA) continues in Kachin State, near the Chinese border. Despite recent fighting around the town of Laiza, morale remains upbeat for the KIA soldiers on the [...]
9 May 2017 by Sekou Toure Otondi, University of Nairobi
High stakes in Kenya's presidential elections After the 2007 general election, Kenya experienced its worst politically triggered ethnic violence since independence. The violence was caused by a dispute between the two main presidential candidates – Raila Odinga and his opposi [...]
8 May 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: “Dealing with the past is defining the present” The way history is remembered was a theme emerging this week not only in Tunisia and Germany but also France, in the grip of presidential elections.  Remembrance and the past were one of the numerous subjects of debate between the [...]
4 May 2017 by JusticeInfo.net
Rwanda tribunal ex-convict tries to go to Burundi Captain Innocent Sagahutu is back in the “safe house” in Arusha, Tanzania, where he has been living for several years alongside others freed by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). For the last three weeks or so [...]
3 May 2017 by AFP
Swiss extend detention of Gambian ex-minister Switzerland said Wednesday it has extended the detention of former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko after "progress" in a crimes against humanity probe. Sonko was a top lieutenant of The Gambia's fallen dictator Yahya Jammeh [...]