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On March 1, 2023, three militiamen from the Raia Mutomboki Bralima armed group were convicted by the Military Tribunal o...
In the last five years, eight individuals sentenced to one-year imprisonment for war crimes replaced their sentences wit...

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
Eleven years after his arrest in Geneva, the procedure against Khaled Nezzar is still ongoing in Switzerland. TRIAL Inte...
Survivor to testify at German Trial of Alleged Gambian ‘Death Squad’ Driver Trial of Jammeh-Era Abuses moves forward...
Portrait of Deyda Hydara
Berlin, April 21, 2022. The opening of the first German trial  for serious crimes committed in Gambia...
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
Major Advance for Victims of Abuses During Yahya Jammeh Rule (Berlin and Geneva, 03.03.2022) – The indictment in German...
Portrait of Baba Hydara
It is a giant step forward in the fight against impunity. The Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has conducted t...

Victims of the Algerian civil war still await justice

19.10.2021 - (Last modified: 12.12.2025)
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...
The mining riches of South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attract violence from (and b...