Podcast produced by our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts: Janet H. Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg with Jeanne Sulzer (Amnesty International France).
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🇫🇷 #UniversalJurisdiction [podcast] 🎧 - There are over 150 cases that are investigated under the universal jurisdiction principle in France. What explains this massive increase of cases? And how and why is France able to utilise it effectively?
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🇱🇷 #Liberia [opinion] - Members of the civil society suspect various actors to try to spoil/obstruct the making of the War and Economic Crimes Court. This undermines a unity of purpose in mobilizing a collective financial strategy for the court, argues Aaron Weah.
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Find out more in our article, on Justice Info 👇
"Gambia’s reparation gap and botched sale of ex–dictator’s assets"
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Among the sources of funds for the country's recently established reparation commission, according to its act, is the monies recovered from sale of the dictator’s assets.
🗨️ “Not that so-called donors are fatigued or changed their strategic focus or are now preoccupied with other pressing issues at home, but also the government itself would lack the moral standing and legitimacy to ask anyone for support”, concludes Jobarteh.
🗨️ “Now that millions of dalasi have been squandered, and with the current global geopolitical situation, one wonders how the government would raise funds.”
🗨️ “The Gambia had the capacity to have self-funded the prosecutions and the entire reparations if the proceeds from Jammeh asset sales were well managed,” laments leading Gambian human rights activist Madi Jobarteh.
The inquiry concluded that this led to inadequate asset preservation and significant losses.
Assets were often handled through informal practices & without proper legal authority. Several state institutions, including the Registrar General, the Department of Parks and Wildlife, and the Gambia Livestock Marketing Agency (GLMA) failed to comply with the High Court's May 2017 freezing orders.
A 324–page report of the special committee of the National Assembly revealed fragmented institutional arrangements, a poor documentation culture, and serious lapses in inter-agency coordination throughout the process of the assets disposal.
A number of people involved are recommended for criminal proceedings including the chief architect of the post-dictatorship transitional justice process, ex-justice minister Abubacarr Tambadou.
Now, a state inquiry which followed an investigative report by the local newspaper The Republic and three days of protest in May 2025, has found that the process towards the recovery of the dictator’s loot was marred by irregularities.
Government inquiry holds Jammeh responsible for pilfering little under $400 million.
The cost of justice for Jammeh’s victims and reparation amounted to at least $64 million but funding for both have fallen far short of adequate, something blamed on lack of resources.
The financial inquiry uncovered widespread theft of public resources, recommending sweeping reforms and a complete forfeiture of the assets of the former dictator whose net worth was estimated at a billion dollars — the country’s GDP at December 2016.
But to reform, Jammeh’s successor Adama Barrow thought, would require a proper diagnosis of the past, a policy decision that established a financial inquiry into the ex–leader and his associates and separate inquiry into his human rights records.
More than nine years ago, the tiny West African country of The Gambia toppled a dictator – Yahya Jammeh – and with the unexpected change came a promise of accountability and good governance.
Read below (thread) the first paragraphs of our article analysing the state scandal behind the reparations process in The Gambia following Yahya Jammeh's dictatorship. 👇
FYI: Transparency International (@anticorruption.bsky.social)
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Helpful update and discussion of prognoses of the Karim Khan investigation by @janethanderson.bsky.social
@justiceinfo.bsky.social "has been provided with information from all parties showing that this investigation is at risk of being seen as seriously flawed"
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#Gambia - A state inquiry has found that the recovery of Yahya Jammeh’s loot was marred by irregularities. Among those recommended for criminal proceedings is the chief architect of the transitional justice process.
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#YahyaJammeh #AbubacarrTambadou
Find out more in our article, on Justice Info 👇
"What do we know of the investigation against Khan?"
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*The Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is the ICC’s management oversight and legislative body. It is composed of all states parties that have ratified or acceded to the ICC Rome Statute.
“You don’t want states to be debating whether or not the head of your prosecuting unit has committed something so grave in a context in which you have at least the Duterte case ongoing, but also in the context in which the court is under threat of further sanctions”, explains Jimenez.
“It is going to be extremely damaging for the ASP* if this goes to a vote” says Jimenez.
“Nothing like this has happened before” says Ezequiel Jimenez, PhD, a senior fellow at the research institute CILRAP, author of one of the few books to examine the ICC’s oversight mechanisms.
“All of this procedure is novel, unprecedented, and bespoke,” he adds.
Sexual misconduct allegations against Karim Khan (prosecutor of the International Criminal Court): how is the investigation progressing? A few quotes from our article to clarify matters 👇
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By Janet H. Anderson, our correspondent in the Hague.
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#InternationalCriminalCourt - This Monday, the president of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC receives a report from a panel of 3 specially appointed judges looking into the investigation on alleged sexual misconduct by the prosecutor #KarimKhan.
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Podcast produced by @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social.
With Caroline Davidson, from the Willamette University (USA).
#InternationalJustice [podcast] - Last week, former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was not present at his hearing before the #ICC. He follows the footsteps of other elderly men whose trials did not take place or were altered due to ‘cognitive decline’.
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