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On August 17, 2022, the Ukrainian NGO Truth Hounds – assisted by Civitas Maxima – filed a denunciation with the Attorney General of Switzerland.

Yesterday, June 23, an indictment charging former Commanding General of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), Moses Wright, was unsealed.

It is with great sadness that we communicate that Fayah Williams, Deputy Director of GJRP, passed away on April 12, 2022. 

Finnish District Court dismissed all charges against Gibril Massquoi, former RUF spokesman and commander.

In October 1992, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) forced hundreds of mostly intoxicated child soldiers to attack Liberia’s Capital Monrovia.

The recent events that have occurred in Ukraine raise the issue of legitimate military targets. One should be aware that the conduct of hostilities is framed by rules and principles established by International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

Sekou Kamara, allegedly a former commander of the rebel group LURD during the Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) was arrested in New York, U.S., on March 26, 2022.

Three recent verdicts by German courts in Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt concerning the Yazidi minority are historic, writes Geneva-based lawyer Alain Werner, director of Civitas Maxima.

The legend of Samson is known to many: in the biblical Book of Judges, the secret to Samson’s prodigious strength lay in his hair. When it was cut off, he was powerless and physically unremarkable.

U.S. District Court Grants Summary Judgment for Survivors of the Lutheran Church Massacre

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), which played a major role in the opposition to the Shah’s regime, was subjected to a brutal repression organized by the new mullahs’ regime shortly after the fall of the Shah in 1979.

Compared to the rather meager efforts of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in the field of universal jurisdiction, Switzerland has a good foreign policy track record in the area of international criminal law.