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18 years of archives, 11'000 reports on justice in Rwanda

The Hirondelle News Agency, based in Arusha, Tanzania, reported on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1997 and the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2010. In June 2015, Hirondelle News handed over to JusticeInfo.net. The agency had more than 1,700 subscribers, including international and local media organizations especially in Rwanda and Tanzania, news agencies, universities, NGOs and individuals. Hirondelle News produced close to 11,000 dispatches, thus constituting one of the most important archives for these institutions, in four languages: English, French, Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda.

22.06.15 - NOTICE TO READERS - HIRONDELLE NEWS AGENCY HANDS OVER TO JUSTICEINFO.NET

22 June 2015 by Justice Info

This website will no longer be updated. After 20 years of covering international criminal justice, Hirondelle News Agency is pleased to hand over to Justiceinfo.net, a new Fondation Hirondelle project on transitional justice. Plea [...]

25.05.15 - CAR/JUSTICE – CAR WANTS TO LEARN LESSONS FROM HABRE TRIAL

25 May 2015 by Justice Info

Bangui, May 25, 2015 (FH) – The Central African Republic (CAR) wants to learn lessons from the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), set up within the Senegalese justice system to try former Chadian president Hissène Habré.

21.05.15 – SCSL/TAYLOR – COURT REJECTS TAYLOR BID TO SERVE JAIL TERM IN RWANDA

22 May 2015 by Justice Info

Arusha, May 22, 2015 (FH) – The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday put a final end to Charles Taylor’s bid to be moved from a jail in the UK to one in Rwanda. The convicted former Liberian president is ser [...]

21.05.2015 – BURUNDI/CRISIS - BURUNDI’S PRO-NKURUNZIZA YOUTH ACCUSED OF SPEARHEADING REPRESSION

21 May 2015 by Justice Info

Arusha, May 21, 2015 (FH) – Torture, muffling victims’ cries of pain, removing their bodies in the night: these are some of the accusations against the youth of the ruling party in Burundi. The warning comes in a letter signed by [...]

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12 May 2015 by Justice Info

12.05.15 – ICC/NGUDJOLO – ICC ACQUITTED PERSON SENT BACK TO CONGO The Hague, May 12, 2015 (FH) – Mathieu Ngudjolo, the first person to be acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was on Monday forcibly sent back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ICC and Dutch authorities dismi [...]

8 May 2015 by Justice Info

8.05.15 - ICC/CÔTE D'IVOIRE – TRIAL OF LAURENT GBAGBO AND HIS EX-MINISTER BLÉ GOUDÉ TO START IN NOVEMBER Arusha, May 8, 2015 (FH) – The crimes against humanity trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé is to start on November 10, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced.

6 May 2015 by Justice Info

6.05.15 - SENEGAL/HABRÉ – HABRÉ TRIAL IN STARTING BLOCK AFTER JUDGES SWORN IN Arusha, May 6, 2015 (FH) – Chadian ex-president Hissène Habré’s trial before a special court in Senegal looks set to become reality, after judges were sworn in at the end of April to try his case. Habré is accused of war crimes, c [...]

29 April 2015 by Justice Info

28.04.2015 - BURUNDI/CRISIS – BURUNDI’S “BORN AGAIN” PRESIDENT REMAINS DEAF TO WARNINGS Arusha, April 28, 2015 – Burundi’s “born-again” president Pierre Nkurunziza is accused of violating the 2000 Arusha peace accords and the Constitution adopted five years later, but he is turning a deaf ear. Several people have now [...]

26 April 2015 by Justice Info

25.04.15 – CAR/JUSTICE – SPECIAL COURT TO TRY SERIOUS CRIMES IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Bangui, April 25, 2015 (FH) – The Central African Republic is to set up a Special Criminal Court to try serious crimes committed in that country. Members of the transitional parliament on Wednesday approved a law to establish the [...]

22 April 2015 by Justice Info

22.04.15 - ICTR/BUTARE – EX-MINISTER PLEADS INNOCENCE AS TRIAL CLOSES Arusha, April 22, 2015 (FH) – Ex-Family Affairs Minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the only woman tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), on Wednesday asked her appeals judges to acquit her, saying she could [...]

21 April 2015 by Justice Info

21.04.15 - RWANDA/GENOCIDE – SWAMP THAT CONSUMED THE DEAD BECOMES GENOCIDE MEMORIAL Bugesera (southeast Rwanda), April 21, 2015 (FH) - “Kayitesi Alice, Mukagasana Vénantia, Sebigimba André, Semutabaruka Straton… ”. Names of men and women engraved on memorial tablets erected on the banks of a moving swamp in Ntara [...]

14 April 2015 by Justice Info

14.04.15 – DEFENCE ASKS RWANDA TRIBUNAL TO ACQUIT WOMAN EX-MINISTER Arusha, April 14, 2015 (FH) - Lawyers for Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the only woman held by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), on Tuesday called for her to be acquitted on appeal.

12 April 2015 by Justice Info

12.04.15 - ICTR/BUTARE – LAST APPEALS CASE BEFORE RWANDA TRIBUNAL ON TUESDAY Arusha, April 12, 2015 (FH) – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will on Tuesday start hearing appeals in its last case, involving six personalities from the southern former province of Butare. The six include f [...]

9 April 2015 by Justice Info

9.04.15 - RWANDA/FRANCE – CAUTIOUS REACTION IN RWANDA AS FRANCE DECLASSIFIES GENOCIDE DOCUMENTS Arusha, April 9, 2015 (FH) – Rwandan authorities have greeted with cautious satisfaction France’s announcement that it is declassifying presidential archives on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Meanwhile, some Rwandan researchers remain [...]

8 April 2015 by Justice Info

8.04.15 - ICC/ ISLAMIC STATE – ICC PROSECUTOR SAYS HER LEGAL BASIS TOO SLIM TO INVESTIGATE ISLAMIC STATE Arusha, April 8, 2015 (FH) – International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Wednesday that she does not currently have enough legal basis for opening a preliminary examination into crimes committed by the so-cal [...]

7 April 2015 by Justice Info

7.04.15 - RWANDA/GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION – SURVIVORS PAY TRIBUTE TO HUTUS WHO SAVED THEM Kigali, April 7, 2015 (FH) – “What we are giving them, what we are doing is very little compared with their gestures of humanity towards us,” says Charles Habonimana, head of the Groupe des anciens étudiants et élèves rescapés du [...]

31 March 2015 by Justice Info

31.03.15 - UGANDA/ATTACKS – UGANDAN INTERNATIONAL CRIMES PROSECUTOR SHOT DEAD Arusha, March 31, 2015 (FH) - Joan Kagezi, the Ugandan prosecutor in charge of trying suspected terrorists who killed 76 people in Kampala in 2010, was shot dead on Monday night by armed men.

25 March 2015 by Justice Info

25.03.15 - CHAD/JUSTICE – CHADIAN COURT JAILS FORMER HABRE AIDES FOR LIFE Arusha, March 25, 2015 (FH) – A court in Chad on Wednesday sentenced seven former members of Hissène Habré’s security services to life in jail for murder and torture. Ex-president Habré is detained in Dakar, Senegal, where he is a [...]

20 March 2015 by Justice Info

20.03.15 - ICC/DRC – JUDGES PROPOSE NTAGANDA TRIAL OPENING IN CONGO Arusha, March 20, 2015 (FH) – International Criminal Court (ICC) judges in charge of trying former Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda have proposed to hold his trial opening in Bunia, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, close [...]