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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...

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...

Common press release by the Society for Threatened Peoples (Switzerland) and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always - Swiss association against impunity) In an article in the bi-monthly newspaper La Nation, two authors qualify the genocide in Srebrenica as a “pseudo-massacre.”  In response, the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Swiss Association Against Impunity (TRIAL)...

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...

Two years have already passed - without results It has been exactly two years since the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance opened for signature in Paris, but Switzerland had yet to sign this important human rights instrument. Today, the Swiss Coalition for the International Criminal Court, a group of a dozen Sw...

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...

19.10.04   Only in French

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. After...

  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...