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Translation of universal jurisdiction trials - Photo: instant translation equipment with microphone and headphones, in an insulated glass booth.

Syrian trials translated into Arabic: the Netherlands' conclusive test

On January 22, the verdict in the first Syrian regime-related trial in the Netherlands was announced by the Hague District Court. The trial had a unique feature never before seen in Europe: it was simultaneously translated and rebroadcast in Arabic. Did this work?

By Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)

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Russian trial in Donetsk: 33 Ukrainian prisoners of war sentenced.

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Gibril Massaquoi was acquitted on appeal following a second trial in Finland.

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In Guatemala, family members who were victims of enforced disappearances celebrate the verdict in a trial in Belgium.

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Lafarge

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Israel president hit with criminal complaint in Switzerland: prosecutors

Israel president hit with criminal complaint in Switzerland: prosecutors

Sonko trial (Gambia) - Portrait of Baba Jobe inlaid into the decor of the courtroom at the Swiss federal court in Bellizone.

Sonko trial: who is responsible for the murder of Baba Jobe?

At the Ousman Sonko trial in Switzerland, Gambian plaintiffs pose at the entrance to the court in Bellinzona.

Ousman Sonko faces the first witness

Portrait of Vincent Lurquin: lawyer specialising in international justice (practising in Belgium), with a particular focus on the crimes committed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"

Gambia - Sonko trial in Switzerland - Photo: Swiss federal court in Bellinzona

Gambian trial starts in Switzerland for crimes against humanity

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for his involvement in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Belgium: life sentence, notably for rape, for a Rwandan

At a trial in France, a Rwandan doctor (Sosthene Munyemana) is convicted of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Munyemana: a Rwandan doctor sentenced to 24 years in prison in France

Sonko trial in Switzerland - Photo : Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko at a conference on cluster munitions in Oslo (Norway) in 2008.

Sonko trial: what can we expect from Swiss justice?

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa and his two lawyers, Vincent Lurquin and Juliette Lurquin, at his trial in Belgium. He is on trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda.

"What judicial truth without material evidence?"

Lundin trial in Sweden - Ian Lundin arrives in court on the opening day of the trial in Stockholm. He is suspected of complicity in war crimes in Southern Sudan.

Lundin, the trial that “should never have taken place”