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Former Syrian Vice President Rifaat al-Assad will stand trial in Switzerland on charges...

12.03.2024

Syria

(Geneva, 12 March 2024) – Former Syrian Vice-President Rifaat al-Assad will stand trial in Switzerland for war crimes an...

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Algeria: dates for the trial of General Khaled Nezzar finally announced

28.12.2023

Algeria

(Geneva, 28 December 2023) - The trial of former Algerian Defence Minister Khaled Nezzar will take place in Bellinzona b...

News

Ten years on, victims still hope a landmark trial will open in Switzerland against form...

19.12.2023 - (Last modified: 18.12.2023)

Syria

Ten years ago, to the day, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland, opened a criminal investigation for...

Screenshot video_PG Hotel Rifaat holding picture

News releases

Algeria: General Khaled Nezzar will finally stand trial in Switzerland on charges of wa...

29.08.2023 - (Last modified: 16.11.2023)

Algeria

(Geneva, 29 August 2023) – Former Algerian Minister of Defense Khaled Nezzar will stand trial in Switzerland on charges...

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Algeria: Khaled Nezzar is reportedly dying. Time is running out for the victims

22.08.2023 - (Last modified: 23.08.2023)

Algeria

(Geneva, 23 August 2023) – According to information recently made public, former Algerian Minister of Defense Khaled Nez...

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War crimes in Syria: Switzerland issues an international arrest warrant for the extradi...

16.08.2023 - (Last modified: 23.08.2023)

Syria

(Geneva, 16 August 2023) - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has ordered the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) to iss...

News

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adopts the Law on the Protection of Civilian Victi...

09.08.2023 - (Last modified: 06.09.2023)

Bosnia & Herzegovina

(Sarajevo, August 1st 2023) Three decades after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the civilian victims of war finally g...

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A proposal to abolish the practice of buying out prison sentences in war crime cases is...

26.04.2023 - (Last modified: 17.05.2023)

Bosnia & Herzegovina

At the initiative of Member of Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Saša Magazinović and with the support of...

Opinions

How Meta should approach preserving content depicting potential war crimes

05.04.2023

Global

TRIAL International wishes to submit a Public Comment to the Oversight Board replying to the following issue: How Meta s...

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Rifaat Al-Assad case: 9 years of hope and uncertainties

13.12.2022 - (Last modified: 19.12.2022)

Syria

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

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11 years after his arrest in Geneva, the procedure against Khaled Nezzar is still ongoi...

20.10.2022 - (Last modified: 17.11.2022)

Algeria

11 years after his arrest in Geneva, the procedure against Khaled Nezzar is still ongoing in Switzerland. TRIAL Internat...

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[ VIDEO] War crime of pillage: no more impunity for economic actors

11.08.2022 - (Last modified: 30.11.2022)

The Gambia

Swiss authorities are willing to prosecute Swiss economic actors for war crime of pillage, according to an op-ed by Attorney General Stefan Blättler in the newspaper Le Temps, published on July 13th, 2022. Our director Philip Grant explains why this announcement is groundbreaking

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