{
    "title": "From Truth to Justice",
    "subtitle": "Building a Path to Criminal Accountability",
    "sections": [
        {
            "heading": "Establishing Responsibility for Serious Violations",
            "quote": "",
            "body": "Accountability is an essential part of addressing the legacy of human rights violations. It involves establishing responsibility for crimes, pursuing justice through lawful processes and ensuring that allegations of serious wrongdoing are addressed by competent and independent institutions.",
            "image": "images/uploads/accountability-section_1794221828_xOdWbtjs.png",
            "image_alt": "Senior state counsel and prosecutors outside the High Court of The Gambia in Banjul, representing criminal accountability",
            "image_credit": "Judiciary of The Gambia · Post-TRRC Record"
        },
        {
            "heading": "The Special Prosecutor and Hybrid Judicial Mechanisms",
            "quote": "",
            "body": "In The Gambia, the TRRC's findings and recommendations have informed the development of a specialised accountability framework for serious violations committed between July 1994 and January 2017. This framework includes the Special Prosecutor's Office, the Special Accountability Mechanism and the Special Criminal Division of the High Court, alongside the development of the ECOWAS-backed Special Tribunal for The Gambia.",
            "image": "images/drive/_DSC7518.jpg",
            "image_alt": "High Court of The Gambia grand entrance with the Scales of Justice, representing the Special Criminal Division",
            "image_credit": "Special Criminal Division & Tribunal"
        },
        {
            "heading": "Due Process, Fair Trials, and Credible Investigations",
            "quote": "",
            "body": "This section explores the legal foundations of these mechanisms, the work involved in establishing and operationalising them, and the role criminal accountability plays within the broader transitional justice process. It also examines the importance of effective investigations, credible evidence, fair trials, victim and witness protection, and due process. Accountability is not measured by the creation of institutions alone, but by their capacity to carry out their mandates independently, fairly and effectively.",
            "image": "images/drive/_DSC7365.jpg",
            "image_alt": "State barristers in court robes holding the Criminal Offences Act 2025 and judicial briefs",
            "image_credit": "Due Process & Judicial Integrity"
        }
    ]
}