Swiss Office of the Attorney General Archives - TRIAL International https://trialinternational.org/judicial-body/swiss-office-of-the-attorney-general/ A way to justice Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:07:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The way is now paved for the trial in Switzerland of General Khaled Nezzar https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/the-way-is-now-paved-for-the-trial-in-switzerland-of-general-khaled-nezzar/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:20:30 +0000 https://trialinternational.org/?post_type=latest&p=23213 It is a giant step forward in the fight against impunity. The Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has conducted the final hearing of Khaled Nezzar. The OAG holds that numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed while Mr. Nezzar was leading the military junta and serving as Minister of Defense at […]

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]]> Victims of the Algerian civil war still await justice https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/victims-of-the-algerian-civil-war-still-await-justice/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:49:18 +0000 https://trialinternational.org/?post_type=latest&p=22971 Did Switzerland miss a historic opportunity to judge a potential war criminal? It has been ten years to the day since TRIAL International filed a criminal complaint against the former Algerian Minister of Defense Khaled Nezzar, on 19 October 2011. It has also been a decade since a criminal investigation for war crimes was opened. […]

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]]> Westwood: Dealing in conflict timber across The Gambia and Senegal https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/westwood-dealing-in-conflict-timber-across-the-gambia-and-senegal/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:00:28 +0000 https://trialinternational.org/?post_type=latest&p=19803 Between 2014 and 2017, The Gambia exported nearly 163 million US dollars-worth of rosewood, a rare and precious tree species, to China. During this time, Westwood, a Gambian company presumably owned by Swiss national Nicolae Bogdan Buzaianu and former Gambian President Jammeh, had the exclusive license to export rosewood. The timber it exported was illegally […]

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]]> Nezzar Case: Swiss Court orders resumption of war crimes investigation https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/nezzar-case-swiss-court-orders-resumption-or-war-crimes-investigation/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:02:33 +0000 https://trialinternational.org/?post_type=latest&p=13344 The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has overturned a decision of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to dismiss the case of former Algerian minister Khaled Nezzar, who is suspected of war crimes. In a landmark 50-page decision, the FCC rules that an armed conflict did exist in Algeria in the early 1990s and […]

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