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Westwood: Dealing in Conflict timber across The Gambia and Senegal

23.03.2020

Gambia

Between 2014 and 2017, The Gambia exported nearly 163 million US dollars-worth of rosewood, a rare and precious tree spe...

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Smuggling Libyan gasoil: a Swiss trader navigates through troubled waters

02.03.2020 - (Last modified: 02.04.2020)

Libya

Torn apart and bled dry since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya is a paradise for smugglers. TRIAL International and Pu...

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Pillage: Swiss businessman under criminal investigation for war crimes in the DRC

12.12.2019

Global

TRIAL International and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) welcome the opening of a formal criminal investigatio...

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Swiss Federal Court upholds Erwin Sperisen's conviction

29.11.2019

Switzerland

On 28 November 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (FSC) upheld Erwin Sperisen's sentence to 15 years in prison. In Ap...

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Nepal: 13 years on, no justice for conflict victims

26.11.2019

Nepal

Nepal has made no real progress on questions of justice, truth and reparations for victims of gross human rights violati...

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Shining verdict in the Kokodikoko case (DRC)

19.11.2019

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Three former militiamen, including the infamous warlord Kokodikoko, have been condemned for crimes against humanity. The...

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Criminal complaint filed against Deputy Ambassador of Sri Lanka for war crimes

30.10.2019 - (Last modified: 03.10.2019)

Switzerland

Geneva, Bern, 4 August 2011 The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and TRIAL – Swiss Association against Impunity – filed today a criminal complaint with the Federal Attorney General against the former Major General Jagath Dias for war crimes. Although the STP and TRIAL have invited the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) on several occasions to take act...

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