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A doctor holds a bloodstained open book in a hospital
1 February 2022 by Hannah El-Hitami,
Germany: When Syrian doctors became part of Assad’s terror In Frankfurt, Germany, a Syrian doctor is accused of crimes against humanity. He is said to have tortured 18 prisoners in Syria’s military hospitals, depriving two of their ability to reproduce, and killing one. Dr. Alaa Moussa ha [...]
Ousman Sonko
25 January 2022 by Julia Crawford
Five years on, the slow wheels of Swiss justice in Gambian case Five years ago, on 26 January 2017, former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko was arrested in Switzerland, suspected of crimes against humanity. Five years after, he is still in pre-trial detention in the Alpine country. Why i [...]
Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran
24 August 2021 by Lena Bjurström
Iran: first trial for 1988 massacres opens in Stockholm Since August 10, a Swedish court has been trying a former Iranian official who allegedly took part in the mass executions carried out in Iranian prisons in 1988. The trial is as historic as it is politically sensitive, with new Ir [...]
Kamel Matmati
28 May 2021 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: glimmers of hope in the Matmati trial It is 30 years since the murder and disappearance of young Tunisian Islamist activist Kamel Matmati and three years since the trial for him opened, the first to be held before the specialized transitional justice chambers. On 25 M [...]
Banner on the balcony of a building in Lyon, France:
10 May 2021 by Jeanne Sulzer
France or Germany: state torturers, don't go to the wrong place In early 2021, France’s highest court granted immunity to state officials suspected of international crimes, while at the same time the German Federal Court rejected such a protection. The International Law Commission, which is cu [...]
Gibril (Gabriel) with the angel Gabriel in the background
13 April 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi Trial: The appearance of Angel Gabriel Hassan Bility was the first to say that Gibril Massaquoi was known as “Angel Gabriel”. Up until 2018, he was the only one. His testimony was the basis for investigations that led to the trial of the former Sierra Leonean rebel com [...]
Military parade in the presence of Bashar al-Assad
9 April 2021 by Lena Bjurström
Austria: High-potential investigations on Syria crimes Austria, a pioneer of extraterritorial jurisdiction that tried a Bosnian for genocide as early as 1994, still does not have an investigation unit dedicated to international crimes. However, it is investigating at least two major S [...]
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
1 March 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Germany: Lessons from the first conviction of an agent of the Syrian regime On February 24 Eyad al-Gharib was the first Syrian regime official to be convicted by a German court for aiding and abetting the torture and detention of protesters in 2011. The minor role the defendant played in those crimes is m [...]
Lamin Darboe testifies before the TRRC in Gambia
9 February 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia Truth Commission: Darboe, the faithful silent agent of the NIA With lot of expectations, a notorious member of a ‘Special Operations Unit’ involved in allegations of torture under Yahya Jammeh’s rule, appeared before the Gambian Truth Commission. Allegedly, Lamin Darboe arrested at least 115 [...]
5 February 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian and Yazidi trials: why victims’ lawyers want sexual violence considered Two landmark trials in Germany have been dealing with crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Syria and Iraq. So far, they have not focused on sexual and gender-based violence. Civil party lawyers in both Koble [...]
Omar Cham testifies befor the Trutch Commission (TRRC) in Gambia.
18 January 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear from former members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Torture, extortion, fabrication of evidence, interference with the judiciary and with electi [...]