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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.

On June 18, the Federal Criminal Court issued a judgment convicting Alieu Kosiah, Liberian national arrested in Lausanne, for war crimes committed during the First Civil War in Liberia.

By amending the Criminal Code in 2011, in particular from article 264 onwards, following the ratification of the Rome Statute 10 years earlier, the Swiss legislator opened up a new legal field.

On June 18 of this year, Alieu Kosiah, a Liberian warlord, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. This was a historic trial, the first for war crimes to take place before a Swiss civil court.

Bellinzona, Switzerland – Seven Liberian plaintiffs have made legal history, both in Switzerland and Liberia. They persisted in their quest for justice for over seven years, despite the Ebola outbreak and the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court announced today that the judgment of the Alieu Kosiah case will be rendered on June 18, 2021 at 1.30pm. Alieu Kosiah pleaded not guilty, and the Federal Prosecutor requested the sentence of 20 years in prison. 

On the 6th of May, the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will sentence Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander and a former child soldier. His guilty verdict has already been handed down in February.

We must treat every disabled person with equal respect and dignity, without discrimination. Disability doesn’t in any way mean inability.

On April 7, 2021, a Finnish court concluded the Gibril Massaquoi case hearings in Monrovia, Liberia, which began on February 23. 21 days of hearings, during which 55 witnesses were heard and interrogated by Finnish prosecutors and defense lawyers.

Today, the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeals confirmed the referral to trial in France of Kunti K., former ULIMO commander, for crimes allegedly committed during the First Liberian Civil War.