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Geneva, April 21, 2022. On Tuesday, the Kananga garrison military court delivered its verdict in the...
Geneva, 12 April 2022 - A mobile court opens today in Bana Ba Ntumba, Democratic Republic of Congo, to prosecute those a...
Premier procès_Kananga 2021
Words from Ghislaine Bisimwa, TRIAL International’s Legal Advisor based in Bukavu   In South Kivu, where I have b...

DRC: Former militiaman Chance sentenced to life in South Kivu

14.09.2021 - (Last modified: 26.09.2022)
Victims obtained a favorable verdict on 21 September 2021, only 8 days after the opening of the trial of a militia leade...
Nsumbu Katende, a commander of the armed insurrection Kamuina Nsapu, was found guilty of war crimes committed in Kasai i...
Geneva, 10 March 2021. The first trial brought by TRIAL International opens today in Central Kasai (Democratic Republic...

TRIAL International at the 2021 FIFDH

02.03.2021 - (Last modified: 03.03.2021)
For the second consecutive year, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) will be entirely virt...
The mining riches of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attract violence from (and b...
A message from Elsa Taquet, Legal Advisor   "You robbed me of my childhood and killed my parents. Now you must an...
Geneva/Goma, 23 November 2020. For immediate release. Two years almost to the day after its opening, the case against t...
Goma/Geneva, 20 November 2020 - for immediate release. The verdict is nearing for the warlord Ntabo Ntaberi, better know...
Did Swiss businessman Christoph Huber commit pillage – a war crime under international law – by purchasing minerals from...