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Rifaat Al-Assad case

03.10.2017 - (Last modified: 23.02.2024)
Rifaat Al-Assad is a career military man and a Syrian politician. He is the younger brother of the former president of S...
Revelations about TRIAL International’s investigation Geneva 25 September 2017 - A collective of lawyers has revealed...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) met with TRIAL International dur...

Detention extended for former Minister Ousman Sonko

03.05.2017 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Geneva, 3 May 2017 - The Court of Measures of Constraint in Bern has decided to prolong the detention of Ousman Sonko. T...
An op-ed by Reed Brody Reed Brody fought at the side of Hissène Habré’s victims until Habré’s conviction and life sente...

A student unjustly jailed for years

26.04.2017 - (Last modified: 17.08.2017)
Onesphore Case Student and member of the opposition detained Mr. Onesphore (real name withheld) is a student and political opponent. In 2015, while having lunch, he was arrested by police officers and locked up in a cell, before being transferred to a prison, where he is still detained to this day. Like others before him, he is a victim of the wave of arrests of p...

BiH: Indictment of war suspect rekindles hope for rape victim

20.04.2017 - (Last modified: 26.04.2017)
Criminal proceedings will begin against the alleged aggressor of a victim supported by TRIAL International.The victim K...

Make way for Justice #3: closing the net on impunity (UJAR 2017)

27.03.2017 - (Last modified: 23.02.2023)
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Universal jurisdiction has gathered unprecedented momentum in 2016. In their annual report, TRIAL International and its...

Carlos Vielman’s acquittal a worrying signal

15.03.2017 - (Last modified: 12.09.2019)
Carlos Vielman, Guatemala’s former Minister of Interior, has been acquitted. He has stood trial in January and February...

Inside TRIAL’s criminal investigations

03.03.2017 - (Last modified: 10.03.2017)
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Benedict De Moerloose, Head of the Investigations and Criminal Law Department, explains how TRIAL chooses, builds and su...
Geneva, 26 January 2017 - Dictator Yahya Jammeh has reigned for 20 years over Gambia – a reign that saw the widespread u...
Eighteen months after Erwin Sperisen received a life sentence for the murder of ten prisoners, his hierarchic superior i...
Carlos Vielmann & Erwin Sperisen lors de la reprise de Pavon