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.
Shadow of Idriss Deby hangs over Habré trial
23 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, Special Envoy, Dakar
The name of current Chadian president Idriss Deby looks likely to come up often during the trial of his predecessor Hissène Habré, which opened in Senegal on Monday July 20. The current strongman in N'Djamena has not been charged [...]
22 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
South Sudanese government forces and allied fighters carried out scores of killings, rapes, and widespread burning and pillage of civilian property in a military offensive earlier this year, says Human Rights Watch. The deliberate [...]
21 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, Dakar, Special Envoy
Hardly a day after the spectacular opening of former Chadian president Hissène Habré’s war crimes trial before the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in Dakar, it was on Tuesday postponed to September 7 to give his new court-app [...]
21 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Citizens of Burundi are called to the polls Tuesday July 21 for presidential elections that are taking place amid high tension. Incumbent president Pierre Nkurunziza’s announcement that he would run for a third term has triggered [...]
21 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, Dakar, Special Envoy
Court orders Habré forced appearance
After an eventful first day, the Extraordinary African Chambers trying Hissène Habré in Dakar ordered late Monday afternoon that the former Chadian president be brought to court on Tuesday morning by “public security forces”. His [...]
19 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project, associate professor at the University of Neuchâtel
WE HAVE SOLID EVIDENCE, SAYS HABRE PROSECUTOR
On Monday, July 20, an exceptional trial is set to open in Dakar. It is the trial of former Chadian president Hissène Habré, charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. He is being tried by the first court ever s [...]
17 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan
25-Year Fight to put former US-backed Habré on trial
“An interminable political and legal soap opera” is how South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu described 25 years of back and forth in the quest to bring former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré (1982-1990) to trial for crimes against [...]
17 July 2015
by Dr. Gilad Ben-Nun, Global & European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig
The Return of Diplomacy: What Consequences for Transitional Justice?
Diplomacy has resumed its role, trumping ’go it alone’ military interventions. Time-wise, we’re in for the long haul- but that could spell some good news. The fruitful culmination of negotiations between world powers and Iran ov [...]
16 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
ICC GOES “INTERACTIVE” FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE DAY
Today is International Criminal Justice Day. According to the International Criminal Court (ICC), “17 July unites all those who wish to support justice, promote victims' rights, and help prevent crimes that threaten the peace, sec [...]
16 July 2015
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project and associate professor at the University of Neuchâtel
Repentance in Rwanda as the Price for Freedom
What was to be done with 120,000 suspected genocide perpetrators? That was the terrible question facing Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Hence its introduction of village courts known as gacaca and policies of forgiveness. After Bu [...]
16 July 2015
by Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner
Taking Justice to a New Level: The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic
On June 3, Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of the Central African Republic, promulgated a law creating a Special Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute grave human rights violations committed in the country since 200 [...]
16 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Will a Silent Hissène Habré Decide to Speak at his Trial?
Will former Chadian president Hissène Habré, exiled in Senegal since his overthrow in 1990, finally break his silence? Will he attend his own trial, due to start on Monday July 20 before the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in [...]
14 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
APPEAL FOR “URGENT” ARREST OF ICC-WANTED REBEL LEADER IN EASTERN CONGO
The Democratic Republic of Congo government and United Nations peacekeepers should “urgently act to arrest the rebel leader Sylvestre Mudacumura and transfer him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague”, says Human [...]
14 July 2015
by Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham, Tino Kreutzer
New Data on Security and Rule of Law in Eastern DRC
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) has released the results of the first two polls out of a series of 10 polls to be conducted in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The polls were carried out in December 2014 a [...]
14 July 2015
by Emmanuel Sehene
Procedure Could Overturn Suspect Transfer to Rwanda
Should the transfer to Kigali of the first suspect from the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) be overturned? Procedures have been under way since May before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals ( [...]
12 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
ERITREA CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMISSION FACES CHALLENGES, SAYS CHAIRMAN
In June, an inquiry commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) published a 500-page report detailing how Eritrea, under Isaias Afwerki's iron-fisted regime for the past 22 years, has created a repressive system [...]
11 July 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
“We must remember what happened in Srebrenica and Rwanda,” says Tribunal Prosecutor
Hassan Bubacar Jallow from Gambia is Chief Prosecutor for both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) -which is winding up at the end of this year- and the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (UNMICT). [...]
10 July 2015
by Tanja Matic
SREBRENICA MARKS TWENTY YEARS AFTER GENOCIDE
The remains of 136 people killed in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995 are being buried Saturday during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of a massacre whose qualification as genocide is still dividing both people in the region and [...]
10 July 2015
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
Serbia Needs Responsible Attitude on Genocide, says Human Rights Lawyer
As Bosnia prepared to mark 20 years on Saturday since Srebenica massacres, the UK this week proposed a Resolution seeking to have the UN Security Council declare the events in Srebenica as genocide. Despite negotiations and a post [...]