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.
Native Colombians Prepare for Peace
10 February 2016
by Christine Renaudat, Toribío
The indigenous people of southwest Colombia, known for years of unarmed resistance to guerillas, hope to be remembered in the peace accord between the government and FARC rebel movement which could be signed this spring. JusticeIn [...]
10 February 2016
by Jared Ferrie, IRIN
YANGON, 9 February 2016 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka's president is unlikely to cave in any time soon to pressure for international participation in a war crimes tribunal, as the United Nations rights chief urged today. But he could turn th [...]
8 February 2016
by AFP
Chad's ex-dictator Hissene Habre had the "power of life and death" over his people, a lawyer for victims of atrocities carried out during his 1980s reign said Monday at his war crimes trial in Senegal. Habre who was president of t [...]
UN probe accuses Damascus of 'extermination' of detainees
8 February 2016
by AFP
UN investigators on Monday accused Damascus of "extermination" in its jails and detention centres, saying prisoners were executed, tortured to death or held in such horrific conditions that they perished. Over the past four and a [...]
8 February 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
Week in Review: Witnesses “Outed” at Gabgbo Trial, ICC Under Fresh Attack
The crimes against humanity trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and his former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé at the International Criminal Court again dominated transitional justice news this week. Both men rejecte [...]
7 February 2016
by AFP
French general testifies in Rwanda massacre probe
A French general has defended France's response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, saying his troops did not give so much as a bullet to the perpetrators and did not immediately grasp the scale of the killing, sources said Sunday.Gener [...]
6 February 2016
by AFP
ICC to probe 'outing' of secret witnesses in Gbagbo case
The International Criminal Court said Saturday it will probe how the names of several confidential witnesses in the trial of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo were accidentally revealed this week. Friday's incident in wh [...]
5 February 2016
by JusticeInfo.Net
Kenyan Foreign Policy “Built on Fighting the ICC”
Unlike many of his peers, the young president of Kenya did not start as a rebel fighter. But when it comes to waging war on the International Criminal Court (ICC), Uhuru Kenyatta has been skilful at mobilizing support, even outsid [...]
4 February 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisian Youth Stigmatized for Life Under Tough Cannabis Law
“They arrested me in September 2013 when I was at home with a group of musician and film maker friends. The police burst into my house with batons and clubs. They beat us up. You can’t talk to them, they just beat you up, that’s a [...]
3 February 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ivorian Ex-President’s Lawyers Fight Back
As part of their defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC), Laurent Gbagbo’s lawyers have chosen to attack. First they attacked Gabgbo’s successor, current Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara, who “wanted to take power [...]
3 February 2016
by Habibou Bangre, Kinshasa correspondent
DR Congo’s First Genocide Trial Gets Stuck
It was supposed to be an historic trial for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first one for alleged crimes of genocide. But the case has got bogged down at the Appeals Court of Lubumbashi (southeast). This court was given the [...]
3 February 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : lost opportunities for transitional justice in Nepal
In the 10 years since the end of the Maoist conflict, a number of cracks have appeared in the edifice of impunity erected by Nepal’s politicians. The Supreme Court made a decision against pardoning Balkrishna Dhungel (Maoist lead [...]
3 February 2016
by Elise Keppler,HRW
Opinion : On Africa and the ICC, Don’t Buy All the Hype
As the African Union summit closed on January 31, 2016, Kenyan media ignited with reports that the African Union endorsed mass withdrawal of African countries from the International Criminal Court. But the reality is a lot less ne [...]
2 February 2016
by AFP
Ivorian militia leader is 'like Martin Luther King' ICC told
Former Ivorian youth militia leader Charles Ble Goude was a "man of peace," in the same mould as US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and tried to stop post-polls turmoil in 2010, his lawyer said Tuesday. "Charles Ble Goude [...]
2 February 2016
by Patrick Vinck and Phuong N. Pham, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Ivorian people want Justice beyond Gbagbo Trial, says HHI Survey
This January 28th, Ivorian ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minister and militia leader Charles Blé Goudé faced judges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on the first day of their trial. Bot [...]
1 February 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Justice challenge in Central African Republic for the next government
Observers all agree that fighting impunity will be one of the main challenges facing the next government of the Central African Republic (CAR). The governing team that emerges from the current election process can only restore hop [...]
1 February 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
The Week in Review: Gbagbo on Trial, ICC to Probe Alleged Russian War Crimes
The past week was marked by the start of trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and his former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé before the International Criminal Court. This represents the most important trial so far for [...]
1 February 2016
by Tomasz Grzywaczewski, Tomasz Lachowski
Transitional justice in post-USSR region : stuck on the bridge over the Inguri River in Abkhazia
From Sukhumi, Abkhazia “Geneva peace talks are not leading to any conclusions. It is just a false assumption that we can live -again- alongside Georgians. It cannot come true” – Ruslan, a veteran of the 1992-1993 Abkhazian-Georgia [...]
29 January 2016
by AFP
Dramatic video of Abidjan clashes at Gbagbo trial
Dramatic video footage of armed clashes in Abidjan and bloodied corpses lined up on the streets opened the second day Friday of the landmark trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. The prosecution accuses Gbagbo, 70, and [...]