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DRC: three militiamen convicted in Kalehe

07.09.2020 - (Last modified: 08.09.2020)
On 22 August 2020 three members of a militia in South Kivu were convicted by the Bukavu military tribunal. Bitale Leonar...
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Yahya Jammeh

29.07.2020 - (Last modified: 04.04.2022)
Facts Yahya Jammeh was born in 1969 in Kanilai in Gambia. In 1984, he entered gendarmerie and gradually made his way to the top, reaching the position of commander of the military police, a position which he held between 1991 and 1992. On 22 July 1994, he came to power following a coup d’état. A transitional government was subsequently established and lasted until 19...
Georges was arbitrarily arrested in Burundi and tortured during his time in detention. TRIAL International has taken his...
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Since April 2015, Burundi is the scene of a massive increase in violence. Severe violations of human rights are regularl...
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It will have taken seven years for this Colonel of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) to be brought before the judges....
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The military tribunal in Bukavu sentenced a sergeant of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC)...
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Four years after suffering severe torture, Miriam is still struggling with the psychological consequences. Yet the Burun...
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In Burundi, opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third mandate was met with repression across the coun...
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They terrorized a dozen villages in South Kivu. Arrested in April 2019, rebel leader Frédéric Masudi Alimasi, alias Kok...
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A historic verdict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) highlighted a widespread practice: the use of torture in pr...
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Supporting a female victim of torture in Burundi

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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The hearings began in November 2018, yet they are still far from over. Why? The trial of warlord Ntabo Ntaberi, known a...
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