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Kazem Rajavi

Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide"

The cold case of an Iranian dissident assassinated in Switzerland 30 years ago was ordered reopened on September 27 by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, on suspicions of “genocide or crimes against humanity”. Why?

By Julia Crawford

Rodrigo Granda surrounded by a crowd of people escorting him through Bogota airport in Colombia

Rodrigo Granda: the diplomatic storm that shook Colombia

Several people are sitting in a waiting room with 5 women in the front row.

Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state

An outdoor trial with lawyers, military, civilians and the public standing around

In Congo, Mihonya trial shows link between environmental and war crimes

Hissène Habré, surrounded by police and journalists on the first day of his trial, July 20, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal

Hissène Habré: the lion of Chad is dead

Demonstration in Mauritania to demand the end of slavery

Justice still in chains for Mauritania’s slaves

A Colombian soldier stands near civilians in the street

Colombia: 25 Army officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity

Pope Francis at the Vatican, accompanied by other church leaders

Church is obstructing justice for clerical child abuse, say UN experts

Gibril (Gabriel) with the angel Gabriel in the background

Massaquoi Trial: The appearance of Angel Gabriel

Military parade in the presence of Bashar al-Assad

Austria: High-potential investigations on Syria crimes

Kweku Vanderpuye, lead prosecutor in the second Central African trial (ICC)

CAR-II: ICC prosecutor bets to demonstrate plans in a messy civil war

Drawing of Alieu Kosiah during his trial in Switzerland

Judgment awaited in Alieu Kosiah war crimes trial

Massaquoi trial: Drawing of the Finnish prosecutors in Monrovia

The Massaquoi Trial: Double or quits before a Finnish court

Sedra Alshehabi stands with a placard with the picture of her father Ali and a text reading 'First step but my father and 130000 are still in jail' after the verdict in the trail of Syrian defendant Eyad al-Gharib

Germany: Lessons from the first conviction of an agent of the Syrian regime

Liberia-Finland_trial-court-off-road-convoy_@Thierry-Cruvellier

Massaquoi trial: Finnish court goes to deepest Liberia

Dessin d'un avocat des victimes dans le procès Kosiah, en Suisse. © Leslie Lumeh

In Swiss trial, Liberian victims tell chilling tales of Alieu Kosiah

Demonstration for

Seoul court decision reignites Japan-Korea war of memory

Syrian and Yazidi trials: why victims’ lawyers want sexual violence considered

Julieta Lemaitre (JEP -

A first in Colombia: eight FARCs charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity