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.
Week in Review: “Dealing with the past is defining the present”
8 May 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
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
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
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 [...]
2 May 2017
by Sahar Ammar
The sufferance marking the legacy of sixty years of dictatorship cannot be felt, touched and expressed through the sophisticated speeches of politicians and government members. It is only through the stories of victims that pain a [...]
1 May 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Habré judgment sets an example
The Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) Appeals Court decision of April 27 confirming a life sentence on former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity was the major event of this week in transitional justice. [...]
28 April 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Is Africa doing better than Europe on new regional criminal courts?
The contrast could not be more glaring. Both the African Union and the European Union have created for the first time a regional criminal tribunal to try the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But the result i [...]
28 April 2017
by JusticeInfo.net
“Who will testify to Kosovo tribunal?” asks the man who exposed organ trafficking
Former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty this week spoke publicly for the first time in years about his explosive December 2010 report on illegal human organ trafficking in Kosovo. He was speaking to a “Carrefour de Sarajevo” forum at N [...]
27 April 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Habré conviction is a “tribute to the persistence of victims”
Appeals judges of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), sitting in Senegal, on Thursday confirmed a life sentence on former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture committed in his co [...]
27 April 2017
by AFP
French court refuses to extradite ex-Kosovo PM Haradinaj to Serbia
A French court on Thursday rejected a request by Serbia to extradite former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, who Belgrade accuses of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 war in the Serbian Kosovo. Haradinaj, 48, was a [...]
26 April 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Mission impossible for Kosovo war crimes court?
In a few days, the 19 judges of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), a European Union initiative ratified by Kosovo’s parliament in 2016, will have their own Rules of Procedure and Evidence. In theory, everything will then be rea [...]
26 April 2017
by Polina Levina Mahnad
Safe Havens, Innovations in the protection of cultural property
A recent constellation of events appear to herald a shift in how the international community responds to threats to cultural property in armed conflict. At a time when many are calling international law into question and multilate [...]
26 April 2017
by Aditya Adhikari
Memorialization and politics in Germany, a view from Nepal
“Today, the Shoah is a universal reference,” wrote the historian Tony Judt in 2008. Everywhere in the world the Holocaust has come to stand as the epitome of political evil. And in addition, the German people’s effort to atone for [...]
25 April 2017
by AFP
Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army: timeline
Key dates in the history of Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which the United States and Uganda have decided to stop hunting down, saying the rebels have been neutralised. One of Africa's longest-surviving rebel group [...]
25 April 2017
by AFP
Joseph Kony: uncatchable, brutal rebel chief
Brutal rebel commander Joseph Kony has sowed terror across four African nations for three decades, even evading capture by US and Ugandan soldiers who have now given up the chase. The former Catholic altar boy became one of Africa [...]
25 April 2017
by AFP
Chad's Hissene Habre awaits appeal verdict for war crimes
Chad's former president Hissene Habre will Thursday hear the final decision on an appeal against a life sentence for war crimes, crimes against humanity and rape, following his landmark conviction last year. The Extraordinary Afri [...]
25 April 2017
by AFP
From exile to appeal: Key dates since Habre fled Chad
Key dates in Chad since the overthrow of former dictator Hissene Habre to his appeal against a life sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have occurred between 1982 and 1990: - Exile in Senegal - - Dec. 11 [...]
24 April 2017
by Lino Owor Ogora
Offering New Insights on Memory and Memorialization for Uganda
From November 25, to December 9, 2016, I was privileged to join a select group of 25 participants who attended a two-week seminar on truth, justice and remembrance in Berlin, Germany. I was the only Ugandan in the group, and one o [...]
24 April 2017
by Radwan Ziadeh Senior Analyst Arab Center Washington D.C
Building justice for Syria
Syria became the place where the most serious war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated, even one day the former secretary general Ban Ki-Moon described of what happened in Aleppo as "synonym for hell." The challenges fac [...]
24 April 2017
by Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, PhD President, INHURED International
Transitional injustice in Nepal
The Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) of 2006 ended a decade of armed conflict in Nepal between the State security forces and the CPN (Maoist). With the end of the conflict that caused more than 13,000 deaths, 1,000 disappearances, [...]