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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.

Fighting gender-based crimes - Illustration: a crime scene (police banner and numbered exhibits) where the silhouette of a character marked on the ground is filled in with the colors of the LGBTQ+ community's rainbow flag.
The Fight Against Gender Crimes
17 September 2024 by Justice Info
The Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic regime in Iran have introduced laws and practices depriving women of fundamental rights, which many say amounts to “gender apartheid”. Some countries, notably in Africa and the Middle Eas [...]
Persecution of LGBTQ people: a crime against humanity? Photo: in Uganda, a gay activist wears a mask on which he has stuck a rainbow flag. Persecution of LGBTQ, a crime against humanity?
17 September 2024 by Julia Crawford
More than 60 countries, notably in Africa and the Middle East, criminalize LGBT people. These laws are used to harass, arrest, imprison and attack people. Some countries have de-penalized in recent times, but some have seen a back [...]
Interview with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer in Iran. Photo: portrait of Ebadi. Shirin Ebadi: “Gender apartheid means you are discriminating against half of society”
16 September 2024 by Anahita Davari
Two years ago, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian student, died after she was arrested by morality police for allegedly not wearing hijab properly. Her death triggered large-scale protests in Iran which were met with brutal repres [...]
Chiquita trial - Photo: a promotional stand featuring only Chiquita bananas. At the very top, the brand's mascot. At the front of the booth, a large button and a sign reading “Push to start the show”. Lessons from the Chiquita Trial (2): The Battle of Experts
13 September 2024 by Tatiana Devia + Daniel Marin Lopez
Analysing the trial of Chiquita, a multinational banana company that was ordered by a U.S. court to pay 38 million dollars in compensation for victims of the paramilitary in Colombia, lawyers Tatiana Devia and Daniel Marín López h [...]
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Israel’s impunity with Palestinian detainees - Photo: Israeli army soldiers arrest a blindfolded man in Tubas in the north of the occupied West Bank.
12 September 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Israel’s impunity with Palestinian detainees What’s happening in Israeli prisons and military camps? How has Israel investigated allegations of serious abuse against Palestinian detainees? What role is the judicial system playing? Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts Janet [...]
Chiquita trial in Florida - Photo: an employee of banana multinational Chiquita works in a factory in Colombia (Uruba).
12 September 2024 by Tatiana Devia + Daniel Marin Lopez
Insights from the Chiquita trial (1): 25 years of struggle A Florida jury delivered a ruling in the Chiquita trial, holding the multinational banana company liable for 38 million dollars in compensation for victims of the paramilitary in Colombia. After more than 25 years of struggle and [...]
Maxime Mokom, a former Central African minister who was prosecuted and then released by the International Criminal Court, is now seeking compensation. Photo: Mokom before the ICC.
10 September 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
The Mokom fiasco, part 2: everybody did their job, no one needs to know How much should you be compensated if the prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) suddenly decides to stop prosecuting you? In Maxime Mokom’s case, he thinks about 3,5 million euros for him and his family would be su [...]
Victim of militias in 2003 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ruth Biangire was able to benefit from the help of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Ruth Biangire poses in her store, where she sells petrol in cans and bottles.
9 September 2024 by Claude Sengenya
ICC/DRC: Reparations leave victims feeling sore (2/2) After the village of Bogoro, in the Ituri region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, our correspondent went to Bunia to interview other beneficiaries of the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims. These a [...]
Signing of an agreement between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Ukraine.
6 September 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How Ukraine (nearly) joined the ICC Ten years after their first referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ukraine has finally become a member of the court on August 21. Ukraine’s parliament’s ratification comes as a surprise to many, not because it hasn’t [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) reparations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Farmer Kiza Nzungu Bwanafasi with his cows in Ituri province (DRC).
6 September 2024 by Claude Sengenya
ICC/DRC: Reparations leave Bogoro victims feeling sore (1/2) On April 24, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims announced the closure of part of its reparations programme in the Ituri region, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo. Our correspondent travelled to Bogoro, [...]
Al Hassan trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: ICC judges enter the courtroom where Al Hassan is charged with crimes committed in Mali.
5 September 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Sentencing Al Hassan, and his judges The controversial and confusing judgement convicting the former head of Timbuktu’s Islamic police Al Hassan was at the heart of the debates over sentencing before the International Criminal Court on September 4. Whatever the sente [...]
The parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) opposed support for a special court for Gambia under Yahya Jammeh. Photo: bird's-eye view of the parliament's main chamber.
3 September 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Why Gambia suffered a setback at Ecowas Parliament for Special Tribunal The July decision of the regional ECOWAS parliament not to support a special tribunal in charge of trying the crimes of former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh was a blow to the Gambian government. But it may just be a delay in the pro [...]
Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A man removes a Russian propaganda poster in Kherson upon his liberation by Ukrainian armed forces.
2 September 2024 by Iryna Salii
14 years in jail for 45 days of work with the police under Russian occupation A district council representative of Kherson, in Southern Ukraine, who became an operative of the police under Russian occupation, was put on trial on charges of collaboration. He claimed he was forced to join the occupation polic [...]
Ngaïssona testifies at the ICC on his alleged role in crimes committed in the Central African Republic. Photo: Ngaïsonna speaks at the International Criminal Court on August 28, 2024.
30 August 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
At the ICC, Ngaïssona in his own words Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, a former minister in Central African Republic, is on trial before the International Criminal Court. On August 28-29 he gave a last-chance, unsworn testimony of his role during the civil war. And nobody r [...]
Kasai Truth Commission (Democratic Republic of Congo) - Children play on ruins in this region affected by the Kamwina Nsapu conflict.
29 August 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
Kasai-Central Truth Commission renewed despite meagre record Having reached the end of its first three-year mandate, the Kasai-Central Truth Commission was extended on July 18. Underfunded and poorly managed, the provincial institution has achieved nothing for the victims and establishing t [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo finally convicted after 15 years in prison. The Judgment was pronounced on August 13, 2024 in Uganda.
27 August 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo’s conviction, at long last More than 15 years after his arrest, Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army former rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty by a Ugandan court of 44 counts of atrocity crimes on August 13. More time is required for his sentencing.
Gender apartheid in Afghanistan - Photo: in Kabul, women demonstrate for their rights in front of a beauty salon threatened with closure.
26 August 2024 by Nilofar Ayoubi
The Taliban’s rule is gender apartheid “In Afghanistan, half the population is deprived of fundamental human rights just because they are women,” says Afghan entrepreneur and activist Nilofar Ayoubi, who was forced to flee her country when the Taliban took it over a se [...]
Our best justice stories 2023-2024. Justice Info is taking a break. Our publications will resume on August 26.
5 August 2024 by Justice Info
Our best justice stories (2023-2024) Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 26. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since August 2023. Six articles where our journalists tell the story o [...]
The verdict is in: Moussa Dadis Camara is sentenced to 20 years in prison, at the September 28 trial in Guinea. Photo: Dadis arrives in the courtroom on the day of his sentencing.
2 August 2024 by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: Dadis Camara convicted, trial closes leaving questions At the end of a lengthy final hearing, Guinea’s former president Moussa Dadis Camara and seven other senior officials were found guilty of the massacre of demonstrators at Conakry’s main stadium in 2009, qualified as a crime again [...]