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Germany, Switzerland and Vatican grant diplomatic protection to alleged war criminal
03.05.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
ECCHR-Dossier confirms allegations against the Sri Lankan diplomat accused of committing numerous war crimes.
3 May 2011 (Berlin/Bern/Geneva). ECCHR has today published a new dossier which substantiates allegations of war crimes committed by the 57 Division of the Sri Lankan Army under the command of Jagath Dias (available at www.ecchr.eu). Jagath Dias was Major Ge...
Criminal complaint in Geneva against George W. Bush: what has TRIAL done?
08.02.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Following the announcement that the former President of the United States of America was going to come to Geneva on 12 February 2011 for personal reasons, TRIAL has been requested on several occasions to participate in the proceedings against George W. Bush.
The organisation believes that it is likely that international crimes (namely torture, enforced disappearanc...
ECHR should voice its opinion on the immunity of torturer minister
15.12.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 15 December 2010. In 2007, the Federal Court, Switzerland's highest judicial authority, rejected a claim from a Tunisian victim of torture, to bring an action for damages against Tunisia and a former minister of the Interior. The European Court of Human Rights has just made it clear it might not agree.
In April 1992, while living in Italy, Mr. Abdennacer Na...
Alleged Algerian torturer barely escapes Swiss justice
18.10.2009 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 18 October 2009 - Mr. Bouguerra SOLTANI, leader of the Islamist party Movement for the Society of Peace, who was in Switzerland last Friday and against whom a criminal complaint alleging acts of torture was submitted to Fribourg’s investigating judge, left Switzerland before he could be arrested.
On 12 October 2009 TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – Swiss Assoc...
TRIAL files torture reparations case before European Court of Human Rights
29.11.2007 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
On 22 Mai 2007 the Swiss Federal Supreme Court refused to acknowledge the right of an accepted refugee, who lives in Switzerland, to demand reparation from his torturer for the ill-treatment he had suffered in Tunisia. For TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), who had supported the legal action of the victim since its beginning, this decision of the Federal Supreme Court con...
Swiss first: torture victim demands reparations to Tunisia
19.10.2004 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)Complaint against Tunisian torturer Habib Ammar
20.09.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
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Press review (f)
OMCT and TRIAL urge for the expulsion of the General Habib Ammar of the WSIS
Geneva City made indignant by the nomination of Habib Ammar to the WSIS (f)
TRIAL and OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) Press release of 20 September 2003 and photographs of the public protest
Habib AMMAR must be arrested...