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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)Amendment of the Swiss Military Penal Code
19.12.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
Modification of the Swiss Military Penal Code
Press release of 19 December 2003 :
On Friday 19 December 2003, despite TRIAL's appeal to the Chambers and the signatures of 35 International Law professors, the federal Chambers formally adopted a revision of the Swiss Military Penal Code which will render Switzerland highly attractive to war criminals.
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Complaint against Tunisian torturer Habib Ammar
20.09.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
The complaint (f)
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...