dictatorship

Eusebio Torres participating via video link in the reconstruction of the crimes for which he was sentenced, on February 20, to 30 years in prison, in Paraguay. Photo: Someone holds a smartphone showing a video of Eusebio Torres.

In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship

20 February 2024 by AFP

On February 20, 87-year-old former police officer Eusebio Torres was sentenced by the Paraguayan courts to 30 years in prison for torture committed in 1976 during the military dictatorship. Because of his age, he will not go to pr [...]

Desi Bouterse, former president of Suriname

Convicting presidents: the Suriname case

19 January 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

Desi Bouterse first ruled Suriname as a military dictator in the 1980s. He came back to power as a democratically-elected president from 2010 to 2020. But the dark past of the dictatorship caught up with him. He was prosecuted for [...]

Justice in Chile for Pinochet's crimes - Photo: Uruguayan demonstrators celebrate Pinochet's arrest in 1998.

Chile’s ‘Pinochet Cases’ at 25: an ongoing sea change

16 October 2023 by Cath Collins

It is 25 years since former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on October 16, 1998. This was a defining moment in the development of international justice. It was also a defining moment for Chile’s justice sy [...]

Reed Brody (human rights lawyer) sits among a group of women in Chad, victims of Hissène Habré's dictatorship.

When victims became heroes

16 December 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

Anybody in the field of international justice knows American human rights lawyer Reed Brody, sometimes strangely known as “the dictator hunter”. A shrewd and creative lawyer, unrelenting activist, gifted communicator and story-tel [...]

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2 elderly people demonstrate (holding up pictures of Franco's victims), in the streets of Madrid (Spain)

5 December 2022 by Carles Fernandez-Torne and Pablo Ouziel

Democratising and decolonising Spain: the limits of the new law on memory In Spain, transitional justice revolutions happen in slow motion. On 21 October, a new Democratic Memory Law created a public prosecutor’s office “for human rights and democratic memory”, to investigate past violations during the [...]