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Geneva, 31 July  2012 - The Federal Criminal Court (FCC) released today a landmark decision in the case of Khaled Nezzar, an Algerian former defence Minister denounced by TRIAL for war crimes. The FCC found that Mr. Nezzar cannot claim immunity for acts committed during his tenure, thus paving the way for a trial in Switzerland. The present decision opens up significa...

In December 2011, TRIAL and 16 associations of relatives of missing persons, of victims of sexual violence and of former concentration camp detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina from all sides, submitted a 51-page report following Bosnia and Herzegovina's own second periodical report before the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Read press release.

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)...

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...