
Universal jurisdiction database
The universal jurisdiction database offers an overview of major criminal cases related to universal jurisdiction worldwide, as well as some cases of international crimes based on active or passive personality jurisdiction. These cases also feature in TRIAL International’s Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR), published each year.
Unless stated otherwise, the cases in the database are not litigated by TRIAL International. While every attempt was made to ensure accuracy, information may be subject to change without notice.
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Rafael Humberto Larios
20.04.2016 - (Last modified: 10.06.2016)Rene Emilio Ponce
20.04.2016 - (Last modified: 10.06.2016)Tito Barahira
18.04.2016 - (Last modified: 14.07.2020)Octavien Ngenzi
15.04.2016 - (Last modified: 14.07.2020)Kumar Lama
14.04.2016 - (Last modified: 08.07.2020)Jia Qinglin
12.04.2016 - (Last modified: 14.06.2016)Deng Delyun
04.11.2015 - (Last modified: 15.07.2020)
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Deng Delyun (also known by the name Peng Pelyun) was Chinese Family Planning Minister in the 1990s. He was in chage of putting the “two children” policy into practice in Tibet since 1984, before the rigorous policy of “one child” was put in place by China in Tibet in 1999.
Delyun along with seven former high-ranked Chinese politicians are suspected of having...
Charles Munyaneza
04.06.2013 - (Last modified: 04.04.2022)
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Charles Munyaneza was born in 1958 in Rwanda. At the time of the alleged crimes, he was the mayor of the commune of Kinyamakara, in the Gikongoro prefecture, in southern Rwanda. Munyaneza was also known to be one of the closest allies of Aloys Simba, an officer in the Rwandan army who was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribu...