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Geneva / Sarajevo, 12 May 2010 TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – Swiss Association against Impunity) recently filed a communication before the United Nations Human Rights Committee concerning 12 cases of enforced disappearances carried out in Vogošća by Serb forces in June 1992. The NGO is acting on behalf of 25 relatives of the disappeared persons.  On 4 May 1992,...

Geneva/Sarajevo, 30 April 2010 TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – the Swiss Association against Impunity) recently filed three applications before the European Court of Human Rights against Bosnia-Herzegovina regarding the massacre of the Bačić and Horozović families, and the forced disappearance of Refik Bačić, perpetrated by Serb forces in 1992. In July 1992, as...

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...

Severe torture inflicted on Mr. Nouar Abdelmalek In July 2009, the Advocacy Center TRIAL (ACT) filed an individual communication against Algeria before the Committee against Torture on behalf of Mr. Nouar Abdelmalek. This is the fourteenth application submitted against Algeria by ACT. A former member of the Algerian army, Mr. Abdelmalek was arrested twice in...

Farid Faraoun case at the United Nations Human Rights Committee In May 2009, the Advocacy Center TRIAL (ACT) submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in the name of Mouni Aouali, Feryale Faraoun et Fatiha Bouregba on behalf of their husband, father and son, Farid Faraoun. This is the thirteenth application submitted...

Khaoukha Marouf v. Algeria at the United Nations Human Rights Committee At the end of January 2009, the Advocacy Center – TRIAL (ACT) submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in the name of Khaoukha Marouf on behalf of her husband and her son, Abdelkrim Azizi and Abdessamad Azizi. This is the eleventh application sub...

The Advocacy Center - TRIAL (ACT) has submitted an individual communication to the UN Human Rights Committee against Libya. The case relates to multiple and grave violations of the rights of Mr Abdussalam Il Khwildy. The Advocay Center – TRIAL (ACT) and the organisation Al-Karama for Human Rights, representing Mr Il Khwildy’s brother, lodged an individual complaint...

Libya : The Human Rights Committee called upon to intervene in the case of the Aboufaied brothers Geneva, 12 April 2008 - TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) and Al Karama for Human Rights On 7 April 2008, the NGOs TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) and ALKARAMA for Human Rights submitted a joint individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding...

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...