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Executive Director, TRIAL International ( @Trial ). Tweets in 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷. #UniversalJurisdiction #Comp étenceUniverselle Soft spot: believes in the rule of law.

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🧶Is there an emerging trend of #HeadOfStates convicted of atrocity crimes? 👋 Good morning, it's the week of 29 July, 2024, and an important verdict will be rendered in #Guinea in the trial of 11 accused in relation to the horrendous Conakry stadium...

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Guinea Court Verdict On Stadium Massacre Trial Due On Wednesday

A Guinea court will on Wednesday give a verdict in the trial of ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara over a 2009 massacre in a stadium in which more than 150 people were killed and scores of women raped.

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The wave is coming 🌊 #Geneva #ClimateStrike @GretaThunberg

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🚨Breaking news🚨 ⚖️The Cour de Cassation, #France ’s🇫🇷 highest court, has just confirmed that cement giant #Lafarge can be prosecuted for complicity in #crimesagainsthumanity , for having paid millions of USD to the #IslamicState in order to pursue its activities in #Syria 🇸🇾.

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Tomorrow will mark 20 years since the arrest of General #Pinochet in London on the basis of #UniversalJurisdiction . This precedent paved the way for dozens of other trials to take place against perpetrators of atrocities. Today, Universal Jurisdiction needs to be strengthened.

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D. Tutu: "African leaders behind move to leave #ICC are effectively seeking licence to kill, maim & oppress their people w/o consequences"

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Exactly 25 years ago today, General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on the orders of a Spanish magistrate, due to massive violations committed during his dictatorship in #Chile . The arrest of General Pinochet set a historic precedent that galvanised human rights

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⚖️Hugely important decision rendered by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in a case regarding the assassination of former Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi, killed by a commando sent by #Iran 🇮🇷 in 1990 in #Switzerland 🇨🇭: for the FCC... 1/5

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A palpable revival of #UniversalJurisdiction is underway in Europe. Here are 7 examples of recent important activities (trials, arrests, investigations) that have taken place only in the last few weeks. There are certainly more that I am unaware of. And certainly more to come.

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#Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during a visit to the #WEF in #Switzerland , Swiss prosecutors said Friday, amid allegations of #CrimesAgainstHumanity over the war in #Gaza . Office of Attorney General of 🇨🇭indicates that first step will

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Big news from 🇫🇷 #France Judicial authorities have opened an investigation at the end of June for "concealment of #crimesagainsthumanity " targeting four textile giants, including Inditex and Uniqlo, accused of having profited from the forced labor of #Uyghurs in 🇨🇳 #China .

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Wow. 🇫🇷 #France : le parquet national antiterroriste a ouvert fin juin une enquête pour « recel de #crimescontrelhumanit é » visant quatre géants du textile, dont Inditex et Uniqlo, accusés d’avoir profité du travail forcé de #Ou ïghours en 🇨🇳 #Chine .

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🚨HUGE! A #French Court of Appeal has validated the arrest warrant issued against #Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in #crimesagainsthumanity for the deadly chemical attacks of August 2013. No personal #immunity applies.

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Paris court upholds validity of France’s arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad

PARIS (AP) - The Paris appeals court ruled on Wednesday that an international arrest warrant for Syrian Presid...

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 Conservative #Switzerland 🇨🇭 doesn’t look as unchanging and traditionalist as some might have expected. Every single canton, even the smaller, rural ones, said yes to #samesex 🌈 marriage.

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🚨HISTORIC NEWS #Swedish 🇸🇪 court sentences ex- #Iranian 🇮🇷 official #HamidNouri to life in prison for #WarCrimes for his role in the #1988PrisonMassacres . Groundbreaking verdict, as it is 1st time ever member of Iranian regime is found guilty of massive #humanrights violations.

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⚖️THE REVIVAL OF UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION⚖️ Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the @IntlCrimCourt . As highlighted in the preamble of the Rome Statute, the fight against impunity should in priority be the responsibility of States.

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Ahead of Thursday verdict in the #HamidNouri case in #Sweden related to #PrisonMassacres , former #Iranian judge makes extraordinary claim "that mass executions carried out in 1988 were necessary to eliminate conspirators plotting against the government".

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Former Iranian Judge Makes Claims About Mass Executions Ahead Of Verdict In Iranian Official's Case...

Hossein-Ali Nayeri, the former deputy chief justice of Iran's Supreme Court, claims that mass executions carried out in 1988 were necessary to eliminate conspirators plotting against the government.

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#Swedish 🇸🇪 #WarCrimes Trial of #Iranian 🇮🇷 Ex-Official Moves to #Albania 🇦🇱. #HamidNouri 's trial for his alleged role in the #1988PrisonMassacre in Iran has relocated to Albania, where several members of an exiled opposition group based there will testify.

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War Crimes Trial of Iranian Ex-Official Moves to Albania

Hamid Nouri's trial for his allaged role in a massacre of opposition supporters in Iran in 1988 has moved to Albania, where several members of an exiled opposition group based there will testify.

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Important development in #Switzerland 🇨🇭 in the #KazemRajavi case. A new judicial front has opened in the fight against the impunity of the #Iranian 🇮🇷 regime. The Office of the Attorney General has indeed formally opened a criminal investigation for #crimesagainsthumanity ... 1/

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Historic trial of Iranian ex-official in #Sweden 🇸🇪 for #warcrimes moves to #Albania 🇦🇱 for two weeks to hear seven witnesses there. #HamidNoury is accused of handing out death sentences during the #1988PrisonMassacre in #Iran 🇮🇷. #UniversalJurisdiction

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Iranian ex-official's warcrimes trial moves to Albania

The trial in Sweden of a former Iranian prison official, accused of handing out death sentences as part of a 1988 purge of dissidents, will relocate to Albania on Wednesday to hear two weeks of...

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‘He Knew My Sentence’: #Iranian 🇮🇷 exiles in #Albania 🇦🇱 testify in historic case against #HamidNoury , on trial in #Sweden 🇸🇪 for his role in the #1988PrisonMassacre . #UniversalJurisdiction

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‘He Knew My Sentence’: Iranian Exiles in Albania Testify in Massacre Trial

BIRN spoke to some of those taking the stand against an Iranian man accused of sending members of an Iranian opposition group to their deaths in 1988.

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🎂🎂🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY @TRIAL 🎂🎂🎂 The organisation I helped found 18 years ago today has just made it to adulthood! I wish that its spirit of teenage rebelliousness and its outrage in front of injustice will continue to be carried long and far by its amazing team.

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Any victim of Hamid Noury considering taking #Sweden 's decision before an international human rights body? Pretty sure at least the UN Human Rights Committee in particular might have something interesting to say.

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🚨 Mass murderer Hamid Noury receives a hero's welcome by the regime in Iran Sweden's shameful decision to free a convicted perpetrator of the #1988Massacre as part of a deal with Iran undermines the rule of law. It will encourage more impunity & blackmail by Iran CC @SwedishPM

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#UniversalJurisdiction case in #Sweden 🇸🇪 Getting to a very interesting part of an already hugely interesting trial. The accused, #HamidNoury , is set to testify in his trial in Stockholm. He is accused of having participated in the #1988prisonmassacre in...

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Iranian accused of war crimes to testify over 1988 prison massacres | The National

Hamid Nouri expected to speak for several days after being accused of more than 100 murders at Gohardasht prison

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On July 14, one of the most consequential #UniversalJurisdiction verdicts ever will be rendered in Stockholm, #Sweden . There, #HamidNouri , a former #Iranian official, has been on trial since August 2021 for his alleged role in the massive executions of prisoners in 1998 in... 1/

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Still doubting #UniversalJurisdiction is on the rise? Just this week: 1️⃣ongoing trial in #France of #Rwandan suspect 2️⃣ongoing trial in #Sweden of #Iranian man 3️⃣life sentence for #Iraqi man in #Germany . 4️⃣Argentine court 2 investigate #Myanmar abuses. And it’s only Tuesday!

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A country facing its past. 🇩🇪 #Germany says it committed #genocide in 🇳🇦 #Namibia during colonial rule. “We will now officially refer to these events as what they are from today’s perspective: genocide,” said Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

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Germany says committed genocide in Namibia during colonial rule

Germany for the first time on Friday recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid...

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BREAKING: arrest made in #Sweden in 1988 prison massacre in #Iran . #universaljurisdiction

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We’ve just learned that in #Germany , no less than 111 investigations into international crimes are currently being carried out by the federal war crimes unit. #UniversalJurisdiction

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Join us at 2pm CET for this webinar on the launch of our @fidh_en & @REDRESSTrust 's report "Breaking down barriers". We'll discuss the importance of access to #justice in #Europe for persons affected by grave international crimes like #torture , genocide, #warcrimes .

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🧵 1/ ⚖️ The #RifaatAlAssad case in #Switzerland ⚖️ A thread on a roller-coaster #UniversalJurisdiction case. It all started here. It is in this ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ hotel 🏨 on #Geneva 's lakefront that Rifaat was first spotted in December 2013 sipping a Martini in the hotel lounge.

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2023 saw the principle of 🌍 #UniversalJurisdiction ⚖️being used more than ever in the struggle for #accountability for atrocity crimes. Never before have so many investigations been opened, so many trials held as this year, so many convictions handed down. See here numerous

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🚨🚨🚨 Breaking news from #Sweden : appeal court confirms sentence of life in prison against Hamid Nouri, ex- #Iranian official convicted of participating in the 1988 Prison Massacre. Such an important verdict! #UniversalJurisdiction .

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Svea hovrätt fastställer livstidsstraffet för den utpekade bödeln Hamid Noury. Han döms för grovt folkrättsbrott och mord efter massavrättningar av politiska fångar i ett iranskt fängelse 1988.

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Arrest in #Sweden over 1988 prison massacre in #Iran . This is what we know so far. 1. A man under the name of Hamid Noury was arrested at Stockholm airport on Saturday 9 November. 2. He is a 58-year old Iranian national.

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16 October 1998 - 16 October 2022. The arrest of Augusto #Pinochet exactly 24 years ago in London is the defining moment that prompted me to start planing the launch of a new NGO that would become @TRIAL International, whose 20th anniversary we are now celebrating.

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And that time #Bernie was waiting for the @IntlCrimCourt prosecutor to be elected…

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🚨 Official press release from #Swedish court confirming life in prison sentence against Iranian official Hamid Nouri, guilty of multiple crimes committed during the 1988 Prison Massacres in #Iran . Great victory for #UniversalJurisdiction

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Svea hovrätt meddelar dom i ett mål om grovt folkrättsbrott och mord i Iran 1988

Stockholms tingsrätt dömde förra sommaren en då 61-årig iransk medborgare för grovt folkrättsbrott och mord i Iran 1988 till livstids fängelse. Brotten avsåg avrättningar av fångar i fängelset...

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#Netherlands has started paying €8.7M to relatives of certain #Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them, following a high-profile lawsuit. Via @BIRN_BTJ

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Netherlands Pays €8.7 Million to Srebrenica Victims’ Relatives

Since the Netherlands started offering compensation to relatives of certain Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them, millions of euros have been paid out...

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With the so important #HamidNoury trial in #Sweden 🇸🇪, cracks begin to appear in #Iranian 🇮🇷 regime’s cover-up of its crimes. #1988PrisonMassacre . But the cracks could actually widen if the Swiss authorities could promptly investigate the 1990 killing...

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Cracks appear in Iranian regime’s cover-up of its crimes

The chief of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, this week left Iran without reaching a deal on an inspections regime. But the Islamic Republic is not only covering up

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Upcoming trial in #Switzerland of a ex-member of Belarus special unit for #EnforcedDisappearances sends strong signal to #Lukashenko 's henchmen that no matter their current sense of #impunity , they are not shielded from the long arm of #justice More here:

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Landmark decision for a survivor of sexual violence: in global first, UN body orders #Bosnia to pay reparations to wartime rape victim #CRSV

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Bosnia: Landmark decision for a survivor of sexual violence - TRIAL International

For the first time in history, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Bosnian authorities for failing to fulfill their obligations toward a survivor of sexual violence....

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🚨🚨🚨 #Switzerland 🇨🇭has issued an international arrest warrant for #RifaatAlAssad , ex- #Syrian 🇸🇾 vice-president and Bachar's uncle, wanted on #warcrimes charges for his alleged role in the horrendous 1982 #Hama massacres. #UniversalJurisdiction See @trial 's press release 👇

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#Sweden 🇸🇪: official press release on the verdict sentencing #HamidNouri to life in prison for #warcrimes for his role in the 1988PrisonMassacres in #Iran 🇮🇷. #UniversalJurisdiction

Iranian citizen sentenced to life in prison for executions of political prisoners in Iran in 1988

Stockholm District Court has today sentenced a 61-year-old Iranian citizen for participating in the executions of many political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988. The accused has in the role...

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Accountability for mass crimes in #Iran 🇮🇷: after the sentencing of #HamidNouri to life in prison in #Sweden 🇸🇪 for his role in the #1988PrisonMassacres , what is the next legal front? It could well be in #Switzerland 🇨🇭, where authorities are leading a #crimesgainsthumanity ...

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Amazing news on the #UniversalJurisdiction front: first conviction for crimes against humanity in #Switzerland . The verdict, rendered on appeal, will set a precedent by establishing that #crimesagainsthumanity committed before 2011 can be prosecuted in Switzerland. Very useful

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Today, the FCC found #AlieuKosiah , former #ULIMO commander during the First Liberian Civil War, guilty of #warcrimes and #crimesagainsthumanity .

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🎁🎂🥳 Today is @TRIAL 's birthday! June 6, 2002: 19 years ago, and following the #Pinochet precedent, the idea to launch in Geneva a small association dedicated to fighting impunity for int'l crimes materialised. It's initial name: Track Impunity Always (TRIAL) 1/6

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#UniversalJurisdiction ⚖ : Informative factsheet from @Eurojust , explaining in a nutshell what UJ is. And how it works in #EU 🇪🇺 States. Which countries for example require presence, residence, or have not special conditions laid out. Information based in part on @TRIAL 's

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THE LUNDIN MOMENT This. Is. It. ⚖️🙌🎉 The #Lundin case has at last started. To all those who've been working on the accountability front over the last decades, let's settle down a minute and reflect on this news 🍸. Whether the two 🇸🇪 and 🇨🇭 executives are guilty or not is

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🚨🚨🚨 After a decade of hard work, the #MLATreaty , now called the Ljubljana - The Hague Convention, has just been adopted!!! An important instrument to make the fight against #impunity more efficient. And now, to the ratification process!

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A big dent in the - largely justified - double standards critique against international justice. Gives credibility to the whole justice edifice. But the attacks against the ICC will be fierce. Brace yourselves. State parties need to step up to the plate. Now.

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⚖️ #Lafarge case Here the important passage translated into English: ➡️ "The Cour de Cassation considers that one can be an accomplice in #crimesagainsthumanity even if one does not intend to be associated with the commission of these crimes: it is necessary and sufficient ... 1/

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Immensely important #UniversalJurisdiction case to start next month in Stockholm, as 🇸🇪 #Sweden has just formally charged 🇮🇷 #Iran ’s #HamidNouri for alleged #warcrimes and murder for his role in the #1988PrisonMassacre .

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Sweden charges Iranian for alleged 1988 'war crimes'

Swedish prosecutors said Tuesday they were charging an Iranian man for "war crimes and murder" over the execution of more than 100 political prisoners in 1988 in Karaj, Iran. The case against...

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Very happy to announce that Gabriella Citroni, @trial ’s senior legal advisor, has just been elected to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Great news, as Gabriella is certainly one of the world’s best experts on #EnforcedDisappearances .

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The UN #HumanRights Committee has just recently approved guidelines for accepting third-party interventions (amicus curiae briefs), when it is considering individual communications. A very interesting tool for all those interested in strategic litigation before the #HRC .

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BREAKING. #French court holds #Lafarge can indeed be indicted for complicity in #CrimesAgainstHumanity . The cement giant is suspected of having financed terrorist groups in #Syria . The decision is a major development on the #CorporateAccountability front.

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La mise en examen de Lafarge pour "complicité de crimes contre l'humanité" en Syrie confirmée -...

PARIS, 18 mai (Reuters) - La cour d'appel de Paris a confirmé mercredi la mise en examen pour "complicité de crimes contre l'humanité" du groupe cimentier français Lafarge pour ses activités en Syrie...

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My prediction: 2023 will be a fascinating year for developments in #UniversalJurisdiction ⚖️. ➡️ It starts this Tuesday Jan. 10 in #Finland 🇫🇮 with the appeal in the #GibrilMassaquoi case ( #Liberia 🇱🇷). ➡️ It continues on Wednesday in #Sweden 🇸🇪 and #Switzerland 🇨🇭 with 2 appeals...

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⚖️Décision importante concernant l’assassinat par un commando #iranien 🇮🇷 de Kazem Radjavi en #Suisse 🇨🇭 en 1990: le Tribunal pénal fédéral juge que le Ministère public de la Confédération ne peut pas exclure que les incriminations de #g énocide et… 1/5

L'enquête sur l'assassinat de Kazem Radjavi est relancée

L’enquête sur l’assassinat de l’opposant iranien Kazem Radjavi, à Coppet (VD) en 1990, est relancée. Son frère a obtenu du Tribunal pénal fédéral l’extension de l’instruction à des crimes de génocide...

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🚨🚨🚨 This. Is. Big. Khaled Nezzar will be the highest ranking military ever to be judged for atrocity crimes based on #UniversalJurisdiction #Algeria #Switzerland #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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🚨 BREAKING : Former Algerian Minister of Defence Khaled Nezzar will stand trial in Switzerland for participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Read our press release 👉

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🚨🚨🚨 Big news from #Argentina , where a prosecutor has just decided to open an investigation against former #Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for #crimesagainsthumanity . The case evolves around his role in the context of the "false positives" operations, these thousands of

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So a branch of the #US government accepts the @IntlCrimCourt can exercise jurisdiction over nationals of non-ICC member States ( #Russia ) for crimes committed on the territory of a State having recognised the jurisdiction of the #ICC ( #Ukraine )? Just asking for an #Afghan friend.

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Extraordinary - US senators of both parties encouraged the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and other nations to target the Russian military in any investigation of war crimes committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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One of the most consequential #UniversalJurisdiction case of the year begins today in 🇸🇪 #Stockholm , as #HamidNouri goes on trial for his alleged role in the #1988PrisonMassacre in 🇮🇷 #Iran . The case is particularly sensitive in Iran, where... 1/2

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Trial over Iran 1988 mass murder begins in Sweden

An Iranian official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents goes on trial in Sweden on Tuesday in a landmark case likely to stoke tensions in the Islamic...

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They do sometimes get caught, especially when victims' groups, civil society organisations, dedicated lawyers and, yes, investigators and prosecutors wanting to do their job, all play their part. And when justice delivers, it can be groundbreaking. #UniversalJurisdiction

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War Criminals do get caught... @DRovera @anneapplebaum @Rus_Lib @IranRights_org @LadiKhanom @Trial @amnesty @hrw

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I filed the initial complaint back in 2008. Never thought it would take that long for justice to be done. But at least, justice has been done.

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Erwin Sperisen, ex-head of #Guatemala ’s police force, has lost an appeal against a 15-year prison sentence by a Swiss court for complicity in killing of 7 prisoners in Guatemala in 2006. Bravo @Trial ! #universaljurisdiction

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Geneva-based investigative mechanism on 🇸🇾 #Syria (the so-called #IIIM ) says it has helped 12 largely-European jurisdictions prepare Syrian #WarCrimes cases.

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I’ve said it before, and will stress it again: without #NGOs such as, here, @ECCHRBerlin and @Asso_Sherpa , these cases would go nowhere! It's vital that these NGOs, and others such as @Trial , @Civitas_Maxima , @redress , @CJA_News , @fidh_en & others active on the justice front...

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Philip Grant

3 years

🚨Breaking news🚨 ⚖️The Cour de Cassation, #France ’s🇫🇷 highest court, has just confirmed that cement giant #Lafarge can be prosecuted for complicity in #crimesagainsthumanity , for having paid millions of USD to the #IslamicState in order to pursue its activities in #Syria 🇸🇾.

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En #Su ède, la justice confirme la condamnation à perpétuité de l’ex-procureur iranien Hamid Nouri pour sa participation dans les massacres des prisons de 1988. #Comp étenceUniverselle

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En Suède, la justice confirme la condamnation à perpétuité de l’ex-procureur iranien Hamid Nouri

Cette décision pourrait avoir des répercussions sur le sort de prisonniers suédois en Iran, en particulier le diplomate travaillant pour l’Union européenne Johan Floderus, détenu depuis plus de six...

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Philip Grant

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I've tried to compile a list of #Syrian cases investigated or prosecuted on the basis of #UniversalJurisdiction . If any are missing, please let me know. ⚡️ "Syrian cases - Universal jurisdiction" by @PhilipGrant40

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...plan by the Iranian regime that led to multiple assassinations of political opponents, in particular in Hamburg🇩🇪, Vienna🇦🇹, London🇬🇧, Geneva🇨🇭, Dubai🇦🇪 and Paris🇫🇷 between 1987 and 1993. 5/5

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#Lafarge : decision tomorrow in Paris on this so important #CorporateAccountability case. The Paris Court of Appeal will render its decision on the validity of the indictment for "complicity in #crimesagainsthumanity "...

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Lafarge en Syrie : décision en appel mercredi sur la « complicité de crimes contre l’humanité »

La cour d'appel de Paris va rendre sa décision mercredi sur la validité de la mise en examen pour « complicité de crimes contre l’humanité » du groupe cimentier français Lafarge pour ses activités

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The decision is not yet public, but here a press report:

L'enquête sur l'assassinat de Kazem Radjavi est relancée

L’enquête sur l’assassinat de l’opposant iranien Kazem Radjavi, à Coppet (VD) en 1990, est relancée. Son frère a obtenu du Tribunal pénal fédéral l’extension de l’instruction à des crimes de génocide...

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BREAKING 🚨Super important case in #Sweden 🇸🇪. Corporate executives charged with #warcrimes in #Sudan 🇸🇩. Facts about the investigation: • Approximately 150 persons have been interviewed. • An investigation report consisting more than 80 000 pages.

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PAX for peace

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Lundin Energy charged with war crimes in civil war in #Sudan , victims are hopeful that justice will be done. Swedish investigation is exemplary and rare effort to seek accountability for corporate complicity in human rights abuses @UnpaidDebt

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🚨ENORME! #Syrie #France La cour d'appel de Paris a validé le mandat d'arrêt émis par des juges d'instruction contre le président #syrien Bachar al-Assad, accusé de complicité de #crimescontrelhumanit é pour les attaques chimiques meurtrières d'août 2013.

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Attaques chimiques en Syrie en 2013: la justice valide le mandat d'arrêt français visant Bachar...

La cour d'appel de Paris a validé mercredi le mandat d'arrêt visant le président syrien Bachar al-Assad, accusé de complicité de crimes contre l'humanité pour les attaques chimiques meurtrières...

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3 years

Smart move. #Sweden 🇸🇪 and #France 🇫🇷 launch joint task force to prosecute #ISIS fighters over #Yazidi #genocide . The joint investigation team aims to share information and evidence more swiftly and avoid several interviews of the same victims.

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Sweden and France launch joint task force to prosecute ISIS fighters over Yazidi genocide | The...

Joint investigation team will avoid the need to interview victims twice

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#Belgique : la condamnation à 25 ans de prison de Fabien Neretsé, ex-haut fonctionnaire rwandais reconnu coupable de #g énocide en 1994, est devenue définitive avec le rejet mercredi de son pourvoi en cassation. #Rwanda #Comp étenceUniverselle

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After the history verdict in #Germany 🇩🇪, it is clear some countries need better laws to prosecute atrocities in #Syria 🇸🇾. Some states, #France 🇫🇷 in particular, continue to put barriers to #universaljurisdiction , preventing the prosecution of war criminals.

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As a reminder, the Federal Criminal Court ruled in September 2021 that the assassination of Mr. Rajavi could have taken place as part of a broader policy of extrajudicial killings put in place by the Iranian regime... 3/

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Investigation relaunched into murder of Kazem Rajavi

The investigation into the assassination of the Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi in Switzerland in 1990 has been re-opened.

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3 years

Exécutions de masse en #Iran 🇮🇷 en 1988: le tribunal #su édois🇸🇪 qui juge actuellement #HamidNoury , accusé de #CrimesDeGuerre , va se rendre durant deux semaines en #Albanie 🇦🇱 pour y entendre sept témoins. #Comp étenceUniverselle

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Exécutions de masse en Iran en 1988: un procès en Suède va entendre des témoins en Albanie

Le procès en Suède d'Hamid Noury, un ancien responsable iranien accusé d'être impliqué dans des exécutions de masse d'opposants ordonnées par l'ayatollah Khomeini en 1988, se déplacera mercredi en...

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4 years

After the historic verdict rendered yesterday in 🇩🇪 #Germany , it is essential to remember that such judgments do not pop out of nowhere. To get there you need to have: ➡️ A solid legal framework enacted by parliament 1/

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ECCHR

4 years

(1/3) PRESS RELEASE Verdict in the #AlKhatib trial: In the first worldwide trial to address state crimes in #Syria , Eyad A. was sentenced today to 4 years & 6 months in prison for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity 👉

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Former #Nazi Guard, Age 100, to Stand Trial in 🇩🇪 #Germany . The centenarian was charged with complicity in the murder of more than 3,500 inmates at the Sachsenhausen camp on the outskirts of Berlin.

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Former Nazi Guard, Age 100, to Stand Trial in Germany

The trial will make the man, a former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, one of the oldest defendants in a case brought against alleged Nazi-era perpetrators.

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6 years

Great news: Three Syrian dignitaries targeted by arrest warrants issued by France. Included in the warrants is #AliMamlouk , director of the National Security Bureau and a close Bachar #AlAssad advisor. #UniversalJurisdiction

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Trois dignitaires syriens visés par des mandats d’arrêt émis par la justice française

Selon nos informations, les mandats d’arrêt internationaux ont été émis par un juge d’instruction français il y a quelques jours.

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3 years

🇫🇷 #France 's highest court to decide on Thursday on multiple appeals in the #Lafarge case, in which the ciment maker was initially charged with complicity in #CrimesAgainstHumanity in 🇸🇾 #Syria . Hugely important decision for #CorporateAccountability . @Asso_Sherpa @ECCHRBerlin

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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Huuuuuge news in international justice. Five arrest warrants requested by the International Criminal Court #ICC against: 1. Benjamin NETANYAHU, Prime Minister of #Israel 2. Yoav GALLANT, Minister of Defence of Israel

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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation...

Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine. Image ICC Prosecutor Khan on applica...

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5 years

Despite EU restrictions, #German companies were involved in exporting chemicals to #Syria . The ingredients can be used to make #sarin gas — a nerve agent used in Syria's devastating war. Now German prosecutors say they have initiated legal proceedings.

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3 years

...the Office of the Attorney General cannot rule out the application of the crime of #genocide or of #crimesagainsthumanity , even if both provisions only entered the criminal code (well) after the 1990 assassination. Having determined that prosecuting this murder is... 2/5

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1 year

Historic trial starting today in #SouthAfrica #Apartheid

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Omar Shakir

1 year

Important news out of South Africa: Trial into killing of 4 anti-apartheid activists in 1982 begins next week on charges including apartheid—"the first time that the charge of the crime against humanity of apartheid is being brought anywhere in the world"

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2 years

Very honoured and humbled. I share this recognition with all of my colleagues & those around the world who relentlessly fight for justice and accountability.

@UniBasel_en

University of Basel

2 years

The Faculty of Law awards its honorary doctorate to @PhilipGrant40 , founder of the NGO @Trial , which is dedicated to bringing those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, sexual violence, torture, and enforced disappearances to justice.

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7 years

#Syria : Rifaat al-Assad under investigation in #Switzerland 4 #WarCrimes . @trial confirms today's press revelations.

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Philip Grant

6 years

BREAKING!!! Hey Europe! #GoodNews on the #HumanRights front. Swiss voters MASSIVELY rejected today a constitutional amendment that would have demeaned int'l law and would have risked #Switzerland having to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

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3 years

Taking my hat off to the investigators and prosecutors who have made this case possible. But also and above all to all the survivors, witnesses, journalists, NGO colleagues who have tirelessly worked to open this first breach in the wall of impunity surrounding the Assad Regime.

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TRIAL International

3 years

🚨BREAKING #German court finds #Syrian colonel guilty of #crimesagainsthumanity in first ever trial against representatives of Bashar Al-Assad's regime and reign of terror. #UniversalJurisdiction

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Summer of 1994: I was offering legal aid to asylum seekers in Geneva. A few were genocide survivors from Rwanda. One I helped later told me on the day after she entered the asylum center, she fell face to face with Félicien #Kabuga . She was fleeing from him. But there he was.

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#French police arrest #Rwandan #genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga. Officers find African country’s most-wanted man living under false identity in Paris.

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BREAKING #Switzerland indicts #Liberian over #warcrimes . There should be a #UniversalJurisdiction trial in Switzerland, the first of its kind since 2000. @Civitas_Maxima

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2 years

NEWS. #France 🇫🇷: ex-prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta, on trial for his involvement in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in #Rwanda 🇷🇼, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. He is the highest ranking official ever tried in France in connection with the...

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4 years

Important ruling re: #UniversalJurisdiction ⚖️Top German court rules #warcrimes committed abroad can be tried in 🇩🇪 #Germany , as foreign soldiers not protected from prosecution. The ruling could have wide-ranging implications for ongoing investigations and trial in the country.

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The Court of Cassation 🇫🇷 has spoken: the possibility of prosecuting in #France perpetrators of atrocities committed abroad on the basis of #UniversalJurisdiction ⚖️ remains. Phew! But... French legislation, like that of so many other countries, is imperfect and continues to

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4 years

First #UniversalJurisdiction trial in #Switzerland in 20 years to finally take place from 16 Nov to 18 Dec 2020.

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4 years

#PressRelease Press Release: New dates set for Alieu Kosiah Trial in 2020 #Liberia #Switzerland #Kosiah #warcrimes

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In 20+ years working in this field, I've never seen such an acceleration of #UniversalJurisdiction cases. In just the past weeks: 1⃣ opening in #Sweden of a case against corporate actors (a world premiere) for complicity in #warcrimes committed in #Sudan (the #Lundin case) 2⃣ a

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🚨 BREAKING #Syria : Bashar al-Assad's uncle, #Rifaat al-Assad, indicted in #Switzerland for multiple crimes committed in 1982 in the city of Hama. #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

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

Former Syrian Vice President Rifaat al-Assad will stand trial in Switzerland on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity - our PR.

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11 months

Henry Kissinger has just died at 100. For those working in the field of international justice, our goal should be that the Kissingers of the future never, never escape justice.

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Philip Grant

1 year

Ben #Ferencz and Henry #Kissinger . Both were Jewish immigrants from Europe who lived (or still live) to be 100+. Both played major roles in the realm of int'l justice. One was a small man. The other is Ben Ferencz. Ben passed away 2 months ago. Kissinger turned 100 in May.

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Will #Sweden fully own their hugely controversial move, and pay the victims of Hamid Noury the compensation Swedish courts have ordered him to pay? #reparations

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Shadi Sadr

4 months

AFP: "Shadi Sadr, founder of London-based NGO @Justice4Iran which seeks accountability for crimes committed in Iran, said that "regardless of the motivation" for Sweden's move "his release is a blatant, shameless act that has left countless victims and the wider Iranian

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On Wednesday, the #Swiss parliament will elect the new Attorney General of #Switzerland 🇨🇭. A big, big case waiting for him on his desk: whether #Iran 🇮🇷 committed a #crimeagainsthumanity by assassinating Kazem Radjavi in 1990 on Swiss soil.

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Philip Grant

3 years

⚖️Hugely important decision rendered by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in a case regarding the assassination of former Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi, killed by a commando sent by #Iran 🇮🇷 in 1990 in #Switzerland 🇨🇭: for the FCC... 1/5

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Today, @TRIAL celebrates its 22nd anniversary! 🎉 25 years ago, inspired by the #Pinochet case, the crazy idea to replicate this groundbreaking precedent led to the birth of TRIAL. On June 6, 2002, TRIAL was officially established (just weeks before the @IntlCrimCourt !😉).

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👋 Good morning, it's the week of 15 April 2024, and @trial and its partners are publishing today the 10th edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review. This year's #UJAR will show a big ↗️ in #UniversalJurisdiction cases & the growing impact of this accountability tool.

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#UniversalJurisdiction Now official: trial of Ousman Sonko, ex-Minister of Interior of #Gambia , to begin in #Switzerland on 8 January 2024, on multiple charges of #CrimesAgainstHumanity . Mr. Sonko will be the highest ranking official ever tried in Europe on the basis of UJ.

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#UniversalJurisdiction : #Iran 🇮🇷 giving #Sweden 🇸🇪 lessons on the rule of law 😂. That part might be laughable. But the Hamid Nouri case seems clearly to scare the s #it out of Iranian officials. Watch out for retaliation.

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Iran summons Swedish envoy over ex-official's trial

Iran said it had summoned Sweden's ambassador following a request by prosecutors in the Nordic country for life imprisonment for a former Iranian official. The foreign ministry in Tehran late Sunday...

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