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In spring 2025, Civitas Maxima was alerted to the fact that Mohamed Jabateh had lodged another appeal in his case. This was surprising because we had been under the impression that his case was final.

Geneva and Madrid, April 22, 2026 – A Spanish court has confirmed the expansion of an investigation into alleged international crimes committed during the Sierra Leone civil war to include money laundering offences and additional suspects.

TRIAL International, in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, the CJA, the ECCHR, the FIDH and REDRESS, published the latest edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR).

The United Nations holds millions of pieces of evidence on ISIS crimes in Iraq, some of which could help incriminate dual nationals now in Europe—if lawyers and victims were able to access them, writes Alain Werner, director of Civitas Maxima.

Until early September 2014, the very existence of Civitas Maxima, founded in 2012, was known to almost no one. None of our cases were public, we had only a tiny team, and no one was responsible for communications.

OPINION. Three examples of Iranian quests for justice demonstrate that civil society can effectively mobilize international law when states prove unable to protect victims of crimes, writes lawyer Alain Werner.

The judges of the chambre des mises en accusation of the Ghent court of appeal issued a decision officially closing the investigation phase of the case against Martina Johnson and sending her case to trial before the cour d’assises.

(Monrovia, March 4, 2026) – Armed men at 3 a.m. on February 20, 2026, raided the office of the GJRP in Liberia, the Center for Justice and Accountability, Civitas Maxima, Global Justice Center, Global Justice and and Research Project and HRW.

Civitas Maxima is pleased to share that 2026 marks the 10-year anniversary of our partnership with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva Academy).

In January, Civitas Maxima endorsed the Initiative for Disability Inclusion in the Convention on Crimes against Humanity.

UPDATE – Since our December publication, an English translation of the judgment of the Swiss Court recognizing the Director of Civitas Maxima as a victim of defamation is now available.

Many have noted that the current President of the U.S. is actively undermining the international legal system that his country once helped to establish. A very clear demonstration of this was the United States’ recent aggression against Venezuela.