News releases

TRIAL, along with eight associations from Mexico and Central America, has submitted a report (available in Spanish too)  to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances(CED). It aims at reminding Mexico of its legal obligation under the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Even though the State is party to this treat...

The United Nations has just adopted a landmark decision condemning Libya for the enforced disappearance of Jaballa Hamed Matar and Izzat Yousef Al-Maqrif, two high-ranking political opponents of Colonel Gaddafi's regime whose fate and whereabouts remain unknown since 1990. If this decision doesn't disclose the truth on the final fate of the two political leaders, i...

Geneva, London, May 19 2014 - The United Nations has adopted a landmark decision condemning Libya for the enforced disappearance of two high-ranking political opponents of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime. The complaints regarding the cases of Jaballa Hamed Matar and Izzat Yousef Al-Maqrif were filed by NGO TRIAL on behalf of the sons of the disappeared. Hisham Matar and Youc...

In April 2014, TRIAL has submitted a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) on behalf of a victim of arbitrary arrest, torture and enforced disappearance in Nepal.   Arbitrarily arrested, disappeared and tortured Amrit Kandel, a Nepalese citizen, was arbitrarily arrested in Kathmandu on 10th October 2003 during the armed conflict th...

The French police have arrested Bosnian Serb citizen Radomir Šušnjar, a former member of a paramilitary group in Bosnia, wanted for war crimes. TRIAL led an investigation on this case since 2012, located the suspect and informed the French and Bosnian authorities. The arrest was carried out on April 4 at the request of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s authorities. War crim...

Bosnia has recently released more than a dozen convicted war criminals following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in July 2013. Among these criminals, six took part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. In response, three NGOs -TRIAL, the Association Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom...

TRIAL submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, on behalf of a Nepalese citizen, Mr. Prashanta Pandey, on a case of his torture and violations of the right to a fair trial perpetrated in the Terai by Nepalese authorities. Arbitrarily arrested, disappeared and tortured Prashanta Pandey, a citizen from Terai, was arbitrarily arrested on 7 April 2011...

TRIAL calls on Mexico to investigate the massacres of migrants and to guarantee access to justice for the relatives According to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, 170 migrants have been killed in the country since 2005, including the massive murder of 72 migrants in August 2013 in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. There seems to be a link between the murder of mig...

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) rendered a decision on the Argor case on January 24, 2014. It reveals that a search was conducted on the premises of the Swiss refining company on November 4, 2013, following the opening of proceedings on alleged aggravated money laundry and complicity in the looting of raw materials. Documentation and computers were seized on th...

Five Algerian victims of enforced disappearances have recently obtained justice before the UN as a result of TRIAL’s ongoing efforts. This brings the number of condemnations against Algeria by the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) to about twenty but, so far, Algeria has taken no steps to implement these decisions. TRIAL calls on Algerian authorities to do everything po...