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24.04.2025 - (Last modified: 06.05.2025)U.S. Jury finds Gambian death squad member guilty of torture
15.04.2025 - (Last modified: 16.04.2025)UpRights and TRIAL International release report on the fight against impunity amid esca...
01.04.2025 - (Last modified: 15.04.2025)Khaled Nezzar case: plaintiffs' claim for recognition of denial of justice dismissed
18.03.2025 - (Last modified: 17.03.2025)
On 10 March 2025, the Complaints Court of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) rejected the request of two plaintiffs in the case of Khaled Nezzar, former Algerian Minister of Defense, who was indicted in August 2023. They had asked for a finding that the principle of expeditiousness on the part of the criminal prosecution authorities had been violated, constituting...
DRC and Swiss Corporate Responsibility – Let’s Take Action Together!
20.02.2025 - (Last modified: 24.03.2025)Call for an end to the violence and impunity in the eastern Democratic Republic of the ...
18.02.2025 - (Last modified: 21.02.2025)Fall of the Syrian regime: the closure of the Rifaat al-Assad case in Switzerland would...
16.12.2024 - (Last modified: 30.01.2025)Day 3 Sonko trial: Examination of the early 2000s charges
10.12.2024 - (Last modified: 22.12.2025)
©TRIAL International / Several of the plaintiffs in the Ousman Sonko case at the trial start before the court entrance.
Ousman Sonko is being accused, among other charges, of having participated in the murder of Almamo Manneh, former member of the State Guards, in January 2000 and, of having sexually assaulted his widow between the years 2000 to...















