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BiH: TRIAL and 9 other NGOs denounce stalemate in forced labor camps cases
01.04.2012 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In April 2012, TRIAL and 9 local associations working with former camp detainees from all sides, submitted a report (called 'general allegation' in the UN jargon) to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in order to highlight the remaining obstacles preventing Bosn...
Algeria: TRIAL obtains condemnation in two enforced disappearances cases
15.02.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 15 February 2012.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently condemned Algeria in two separate cases of enforced disappearances. In November 1994, Mr. Kamel Djebrouni, 31 years old, was abducted from his home in Algiers by a group of soldiers. He has not been seen since. In May and in November 1996, the brothers Djamel and Mourad Chihoub were arrest...
Looking for a glimmer of justice for enforced disappearances - TRIAL keeps its grip on ...
10.02.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 10 February 2012
Hundreds of perpetrators of serious human rights violations in Nepal remain free. The possibility to hold them accountable for their crimes is inexistent as the main Nepalese parties agree to grant a blanket amnesty for most crimes perpetrated by both State and Maoist forces during the armed conflict that ravaged Nepal between 1996 and 2006....
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...
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...
Alternative reports submitted to the Committee against Torture
01.10.2011 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In October 2011, TRIAL and 19 associations of relatives of missing persons, of victims of sexual violence and of former concentration camps detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted to the United Nations Committee against Torture a 52-page report showing how the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to enforce the November 2010 recommendations of the C...
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...
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...
BiH, Nepal: TRIAL submits two new cases to the Human Rights Committee
04.02.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
TRIAL has recently submitted two individual communications to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding the enforced disappearance and torture of Jit Man Basnet in Nepal in February 2004 and regarding the arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and execution of Ermin Kadiric in Bosnia-Herzegovina July 1992.
Jit Man Basnet is a journalist and a lawyer in Kathmandu...
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...