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Khaled Nezzar case: No more hope for victims to obtain justice

10.12.2025 - (Last modified: 12.12.2025)
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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...
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Erwin Sperisen sentenced on appeal

12.09.2024 - (Last modified: 13.09.2024)
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(Geneva, 12 september 2024) - A Geneva court has upheld on appeal the conviction of Erwin Sperisen, former head of the G...
Press clippings sentence Sperisen
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Burundi: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' rights once again condemns Burund...

09.01.2024
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In its decision in the case of the Family of the late Jackson Ndikuriyo v. Burundi, the African Commission on Human...
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United Nations recognizes Nepal’s responsibility on the torture and extra-judicial kill...

24.05.2022
Globe Nepal
United Nations recognizes Nepal’s responsibility on the torture and extra-judicial killing of a minor in 2004 Will the...
Anil with his family
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Victims of the Algerian civil war still await justice

19.10.2021 - (Last modified: 12.12.2025)
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Did Switzerland miss a historic opportunity to judge a potential war criminal? It has been ten years to the day since TR...
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The Gambia: UN says perpetrators of Jammeh-era crimes "must be brought to justice"

08.10.2021
Globe The Gambia
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances supports prosecution of crimes committed during the presiden...
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Putting faces on the loved ones of disappeared persons

30.08.2021 - (Last modified: 25.08.2021)
Globe The Gambia
A young girl, whose father was reduced to a picture on a mobile phone, a woman who wonders where the love of her life is...
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The Gambia: ex-president tied to the killing of 59 migrants

12.03.2021 - (Last modified: 15.07.2021)
Globe The Gambia
The session of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission on the massacre of 59 migrants from eight West Afric...
Boat Binta Jammeh, The Gambia
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Nigerian victim testifies at The Gambia Truth Commission

03.03.2021 - (Last modified: 15.07.2021)
Globe The Gambia
A Nigerian man whose brother was among about 59 West African migrants killed in The Gambia in 2005 by a paramilitary uni...
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Gambia: 2005 massacre of migrants under the scrutiny of the TRRC

24.02.2021 - (Last modified: 15.07.2021)
Globe The Gambia
The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will hold hearings at its current session which be...
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Condemnation of two Imbonerakure, an encouraging sign in Burundi?

18.02.2021
Globe Burundi
TRIAL International welcomes the condemnation on appeal of two Imbonerakure for the murder of an opposition party member...
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Extrajudicial execution of a member of the opposition party in Nepal

09.02.2021 - (Last modified: 08.03.2021)
Globe Nepal
Mr. Rohit Koirala, aged around 32 years, was a resident of Sunsari, an eastern district of Nepal. A vocal advocate again...
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