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.
18 February 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Let’s come together and speak out for Madhesh, to address Madeshi’s agenda for justice and express our solidarity for peoples’ struggle for their rights, writes Ram Kumar Bhandari, founder of National Network of Families of the Di [...]
17 February 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
On January 27, judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to start an investigation into crimes committed during the Russo-Georgian war of summer 2008. This will be the first prosecution [...]
17 February 2016
by Sophie Rosenberg
Lesson learned: always check the microphones. Just after the start of the Hague trial of former Côte d'Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo, prosecutor Eric MacDonald accidentally revealed the names of four anonymous prosecution witnes [...]
16 February 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
“I lost Everything at Age 19,” says Tunisian Homosexual
Ahmed Ben Amor, vice-president of a Tunisian association defending gay rights, has the alert reflexes and hunted eyes of the persecuted, even when he is laughing. Since he got publicly involved with the Shams Association defending [...]
15 February 2016
by AFP
UN must warn N. Korea leader over possible prosecution: envoy
The United Nation's special envoy for human rights in North Korea urged the UN Monday to formally warn the country that its controversial leader and other top officials could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. A report fro [...]
15 February 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Good and Bad Reasons for Africa’s Assault on the ICC
Since January 31, Kenya and other African countries have been advocating for the 34 ICC member countries on the continent to pull out as a bloc. They claim that this international justice is discriminatory because it has only gone [...]
15 February 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
The Week in Review: A Tale of Two Ex-Presidents and a sitting Deputy
This was the story of two ex-Presidents and a Deputy President, all of whom were this week face to face with transitional justice. It is also the story of victims of repression seeking justice and reparations in countries such as [...]
14 February 2016
by AFP
Central Africa: from 2013 coup to key polls
Here is a snapshot of events since a March 2013 coup in Central African Republic, which held presidential and parliamentary elections Sunday. - March 2013: The fall of Bozize - On March 24, rebels from the Muslim-dominated Seleka [...]
12 February 2016
by Pierre Hazan, Dakar (special envoy)
Habré Trial Sets Precedents as it Closes
What was former Chadian president Hissène Habré, seated in the Accused box in the Dakar Justice Palace, thinking about on Thursday, the last day of his trial? Was it of the nomadic shepherd child he once was in northern Chad, the [...]
12 February 2016
by AFP
Transcript of exclusive AFP interview with Syria's Assad
In the following AFP interview with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, the questions were asked in French and he replied in Arabic. Question 1: How do you feel when you see tens of thousands of your citizens starving, running away [...]
12 February 2016
by AFP
Kenya's Ruto wins ICC appeal against using recanted testimonies
The International Criminal Court upheld Friday an appeal by Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, denying war crimes prosecutors the use of recanted testimonies to beef up a faltering case of crimes against humanity. In what will [...]
12 February 2016
by AFP
Central Africa: from 2013 coup to key polls
Here is a snapshot of events since a March 2013 coup in Central African Republic, which holds presidential and parliamentary elections Sunday. - March 2013: The fall of Bozize - On March 24, rebels from the Muslim-dominated Seleka [...]
11 February 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Case of Murdered Congolese Rights Defender Referred to UN
Ten years after prominent human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu was shot dead by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), his family is filing a complaint before the United Nations, Swiss NGO Track Impunity Always (TRI [...]
11 February 2016
by Abdoulaye Diouf, Dakar correspondent
Prosecutor Wants Life in Jail for Ex-President of Chad
Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) Prosecutor Mbacké Fall on Wednesday asked the court to sentence former Chadian president Hissène Habré to life in jail and confiscate all his assets. Fall was speaking on the third day of closi [...]
10 February 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
South Sudanese “Want Truth, Justice and Reconciliation”
Recent reports say both sides in South Sudan’s conflict have committed serious human rights abuses, whilst an August 2015 peace accord looks increasingly fragile. Yet a recent survey found that the majority of ordinary people in S [...]
10 February 2016
by Lynn Maalouf
No resolution for the missing persons in Lebanon
“I was 13 the day I disappeared; the day my mother was left without her only child; the day my life was cut short. Many others went missing like me, and their families still await to know what happened to them. Do not let our stor [...]