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Tadamon massacre in Syria: a trial in Germany - Photo: a street destroyed in the Tadamon neighbourhood, south of Damascus (Syria).

The 2013 Tadamon massacre looms over Germany’s latest Syria trial

Videos of the Tadamon massacre of 2013, after being widely circulated on social networks, are being used as evidence in Germany’s latest universal jurisdiction trial. While defendant Ahmed H., a Syrian driver and alleged militiaman, is not accused of any involvement in the massacre, his case could shed some light on the mass executions and […]

By Hannah El-Hitami (special envoy in Hamburg, Germany)

Universal jurisdiction in Germany and international law. Photo: Trial of Iraqi Taha Al-Jumailly in Frankfurt.

Trial and error: Germany reforms its law on international crimes

At the end of his trial in Germany, Gambian Bai Lowe was found guilty of crimes against humanity committed in The Gambia.

German court sentences Gambian death squad member to life in prison

Trial of Bai Lowe in Germany for crimes committed in the Gambia (universal jurisdiction)

“Someone had to sacrifice themselves”

Bai Lowe is on trial in Germany for crimes committed in the Gambia. - Photo: Lowe enters the courtroom accompanied by police officers.

“Bai Lowe tried to make amends for something beyond repair”

Herero genocide in Namibia - Propaganda painting showing German soldiers confronting Herero fighters.

A stroll into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory

Enforced disappearances: Germany seeks its place in international law - A relative of Syrian victims demonstrates outside the Koblenz court.

Enforced disappearances and the German contradiction

Universal jurisdiction (podcast) - Rohingya refugee woman from Myanmar in a camp in Bangladesh

Has universal jurisdiction come of age?

Syrian trial for war crimes in Germany

Syrian trial in Berlin: life imprisonment for a militiaman

Court in Berlin where Moafak D is tried for war crimes in Syria.

Syrian war crime trial in Berlin: a late alibi for defense

Yarmouk camp in Damascus (Syria)

Syria: Berlin prosecutors urge life sentence in war crimes trial

In a street whose buildings are completely devastated (Yarmouk district in Damascus, Syria), a distribution of food aid is organized for many refugees

Patrick Kroker: “They saw injuries nobody could have survived”

Baboucar

Gambian trial in Germany: I posed as a “Jungler”, defendant says

Frederick Flick (owner of the Flick company) stands during his sentencing at the Nuremberg trial in Germany.

In Nuremberg, “we started to judge company executives and managers”

Bai Lowe (a

Gambian trial in Germany: the thin line between witness and suspect

In Gambia, a woman holds a sign saying

Gambian dictatorship’s crimes go on trial in Germany

Technical draftsmen work on plans

When business helped a genocide

German prosecutors launch probe into Ukraine war crimes

German prosecutors launch probe into Ukraine war crimes

A doctor holds a bloodstained open book in a hospital

Germany: When Syrian doctors became part of Assad’s terror