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16.12.2024 - (Last modified: 30.01.2025)
On 8 December 2024, after more than five decades of the al-Assad clan’s rule, Syria's history was turned upside down in...
15.04.2024 - (Last modified: 16.04.2024)
TRIAL International, in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), the European...
(Geneva, 12 March 2024) – Former Syrian Vice-President Rifaat al-Assad will stand trial in Switzerland for war crimes an...
19.12.2023 - (Last modified: 18.12.2023)
Ten years ago, to the day, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland, opened a criminal investigation for...
A message from Benoit Meystre, Legal Advisor (International Investigations and Litigation program) and Philip Grant, Exe...
16.08.2023 - (Last modified: 23.08.2023)
(Geneva, 16 August 2023) - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has ordered the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) to iss...
13.12.2022 - (Last modified: 19.12.2022)
On the 13th of December 2013, alerted of his presence in Switzerland, TRIAL International filed a criminal denunciation...
After 36 years of forced exile in France, Rifaat al-Assad has returned to Syria and escaped from the French justice syst...
An op-ed by Jennifer Triscone*
More than ten years after the start of one of the deadliest conflicts of the 2...
Exactly 39 years ago, Syrian armed forces began besieging the city of Hama as a retaliation for an attempted uprising by...
The trial against Anwar Raslan and Eyad al-Gharib, two former officers of the Syrian government's security apparatus ope...
03.06.2019 - (Last modified: 10.07.2019)
(Geneva, Berlin, New York, 3 June 2019)
Three groups working on accountability for atrocity crimes – the Syrian Archiv...
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