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10.12.2025 - (Last modified: 12.12.2025)
The origins of the case
Hope was born on 22 October 2011, the day former Algerian Defence Minister Khaled Nezzar was arrested in Switzerland. Five victims had brought civil proceedings against him, accusing him of participating in the war crimes of torture, inhuman treatment, arbitrary detention and murder, as crimes against humanity.
The events allegedly took pla...
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...
17.06.2024 - (Last modified: 04.07.2024)
“They took me into a cell and said, "[...], you're going to talk now". I was tied to the stretcher, dressed. [...] They...
08.02.2022 - (Last modified: 12.12.2025)
It is a giant step forward in the fight against impunity. The Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has conducted t...
Quentin (real name withheld) belongs to a Burundian opposition party that has been targeted by the authorities. In 2014,...
28.07.2020 - (Last modified: 05.01.2021)
Since 2015, several political opponents and activists have disappeared without a trace. Burundian authorities, which hav...
Joint declaration from civil society organizations
On 20 May 2020, Burundian citizens will vote on triple presidential,...
22.04.2020 - (Last modified: 05.01.2021)
Georges was arbitrarily arrested in Burundi and tortured during his time in detention. TRIAL International has taken his...
09.09.2019 - (Last modified: 10.03.2020)
On 4 September 2019, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (CoI) presented its latest set of conclusions on the situa...
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, S...
05.07.2019 - (Last modified: 22.07.2019)
Killings, kidnappings, arrests and arbitrary detentions, torture… violations of fundamental rights are commonplace in Bu...
12.06.2019 - (Last modified: 20.02.2020)
In 2014, Sara (real name withheld) was severely tortured in Burundi. Five years later, with no accountability in sight...
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