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Bih: Human Rights Committee should question human rights situation in the country
15.12.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo / Geneva 15 December 2011
In December 2011 TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity), seven associations of relatives of missing persons, five associations working on the subject of women victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war and four associations or federations of associations of former concentration camp-detainees submitted a...
Call for the creation of a war crimes unit
08.12.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Since January 2011, Switzerland disposes of a thorough legal arsenal for prosecuting war criminals and other torturers present on Swiss territory. But the practical means available in this respect are clearly insufficient as criminals often use Western countries as a refuge and manage to stay there without any worries. Consequently, Switzerland should set up a special...
Former ECHR judge becomes TRIAL's new President
29.11.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
A sole candidate for the TRIAL Presidency. But what a candidate!
Giorgio Malinverni, who recently retired from his post as Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, will in all likelihood become the next President of TRIAL.
Giorgio Malinverni, was born in 1941. He carried out his studies at the universities of Fribourg and Geneva.In 1980, he was appointed Pro...
Clarification in the Nezzar case
09.11.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Following various assertions published in the media in connection with the Khaled Nezzar case, TRIAL wishes to clarify the following:
1. TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) is an independent, apolitical and non-confessional organisation and has consultative status before the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The main objective of TRIAL is to put th...
Diplomatic status of Sri Lankan war crimes suspect revoked
30.10.2011 - (Last modified: 31.10.2019)
Bern/Geneva/Berlin, 13.09.2011
According to media reports today, Jagath Dias, a former Sri Lankan General suspected of having committed war crimes, was stripped of his diplomatic status. The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) and ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights) welcome this decision. However,...
Jagath Dias will face investigations if he returns to Switzerland, Federal Attorney Gen...
30.10.2011 - (Last modified: 31.10.2019)
Geneva/Bern, 22nd September 2011
Following a criminal complaint brought by TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) and the Society for threatened peoples (SPM) against the Sri Lankan Deputy Ambassador to Switzerland, Jagath Dias, for war crimes, the Swiss Federal Attorney General has decided that a criminal investigation will be launched if Mr. Dias were to come...
BiH fails to implement UN recommendations on torture
13.10.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo/Geneva, 14 October 2011
TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity), seven associations of relatives of missing persons, seven associations dealing with women victims of sexual violence during the war and four associations dealing with former concentration-camp detainees submit a follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CA...
Hundreds of men remain unaccounted for in Kenya: TRIAL refers to the UN
06.07.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 6 July 2011
Impunity still exists in the Mount Elgon district in Western Kenya where hundreds of men were subject to enforced disappearance by the government in the context of a military operation in 2008. For the second time this year, TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) in partnership with the local NGO Western Kenya Human Rights Watch (WKHRW) seiz...
Algeria condemned for death under torture of Djilali Hanafi
05.07.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva 5 July 2011
The United Nations Committee against Torture has condemned Algeria for the death under torture of Mr. Djilali Hanafi, a 32 year old shopkeeper and father of two children who was arrested on 1 November 1998 in Mechra Sfa. Mr. Hanafi had been released on 3 November, only to die a few hours later at his home as a result of the torture inflicted upon...
Algeria: Victory in Brahim Aouabdia case
27.05.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Kenya: numerous enforced disappearances in Mount Elgon District
25.05.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
TRIAL submits twenty individual cases along with a report on Kenya to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
Today, TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity), in partnership with Western Kenyan Human Rights Watch, submitted to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) twenty individual...
BiH : Rights of sexual violence victims consistently trampled
11.05.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo/Geneva, 11 May 2011
Today TRIAL and twelve organizations from BiH dealing with the subject of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war (the Women’s Section of the Association of Concentration Camp Detainees, the Centre for Legal Assistance to Women Zenica, the Association for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims – Centre for Torture Victims, the...