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ECCHR-Dossier confirms allegations against the Sri Lankan diplomat accused of committing numerous war crimes. 3 May 2011 (Berlin/Bern/Geneva). ECCHR has today published a new dossier which substantiates allegations of war crimes committed by the 57 Division of the Sri Lankan Army under the command of Jagath Dias (available at www.ecchr.eu). Jagath Dias was Major Ge...
Geneva, 18 April 2011 More than three years after a criminal complaint was lodged against a former chief of the Guate...
Following the announcement that the former President of the United States of America was going to come to Geneva on 12 February 2011 for personal reasons, TRIAL has been requested on several occasions to participate in the proceedings against George W. Bush. The organisation believes that it is likely that international crimes (namely torture, enforced disappearanc...

Libya: Investigate Death-in-Custody Case

19.11.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
(Geneva, November 19, 2010) – Recently obtained documents show that Libya’s security chief blocked an investigation into...
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Alleged Algerian torturer barely escapes Swiss justice

18.10.2009 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
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...

Amendment of the Swiss Military Penal Code

19.12.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
Modification of the Swiss Military Penal Code Press release of 19 December 2003 : On Friday 19 December 2003, despite TRIAL's appeal to the Chambers and the signatures of 35 International Law professors, the federal Chambers formally adopted a revision of the Swiss Military Penal Code which will render Switzerland highly attractive to war criminals. After...

Complaint against Tunisian torturer Habib Ammar

20.09.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
  The complaint (f) Press review (f) OMCT and TRIAL urge for the expulsion of the General Habib Ammar of the WSIS Geneva City made indignant by the nomination of Habib Ammar to the WSIS (f) TRIAL and OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) Press release of 20 September 2003 and photographs of the public protest   Habib AMMAR must be arrested...

Complaint at the International Olympic Committee

11.09.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
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Complaint before Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee On the 11 September 2003, the TRIAL association, member of the Kissinger Out! campaign, filed a complaint with the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), requesting that Mr. Henry Kissinger be divested of the title of honorary member of the IOC. Mr. Henry Kiss...
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