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TRIAL International wishes to submit a Public Comment to the Oversight Board replying to the following issue: How Meta s...

Rifaat Al-Assad case: 9 years of hope and uncertainties

13.12.2022 - (Last modified: 19.12.2022)
On the 13th of December 2013, alerted of his presence in Switzerland, TRIAL International filed a criminal denunciation...
Photo of destruction in Hama following the Hama Massacre in 1982
11 years after his arrest in Geneva, the procedure against Khaled Nezzar is still ongoing in Switzerland. TRIAL Internat...
Swiss authorities are willing to prosecute Swiss economic actors for war crime of pillage, according to an op-ed by Attorney General Stefan Blättler in the newspaper Le Temps, published on July 13th, 2022. Our director Philip Grant explains why this announcement is groundbreaking  
Stronger than crime: “We are not victims, we are survivors!” For the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Vi...
Respect for international humanitarian law must prevail over the quest for profits! According to information gathered...
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
“It took me a long time to get my voice, now that I have it, I won’t keep quiet” Survivor of conflict-related sexual v...
Cover Study on reparations
Geneva, 8 February 2022 - It is a giant step forward in the fight against impunity. The Swiss Office of the Attorney Gen...
Words from Ghislaine Bisimwa, TRIAL International’s Legal Advisor based in Bukavu   In South Kivu, where I have b...
Did Switzerland miss a historic opportunity to judge a potential war criminal? It has been ten years to the day since TR...

Denying wartime horrors is now a criminal offence in BiH

29.07.2021 - (Last modified: 31.08.2021)
Denial of genocide and other war crimes, that is likely to incite violence or hatred, is now prohibited by law in Bosnia...