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UJAR 2021: The impact of coronavirus on universal jurisdiction
12/04/2021
The year 2020 will remain in memories, by and large, as a period unlike any other. The covid-19 pandemic has turned around countless lives, and continues to do so as we write these lines. State institutions worldwide, including judicial bodies, have had to drastically change their functioning and priorities. With so many activities coming to a brutal halt, have cases related to universal jurisdiction also stalled? Luckily, far from it. These are the findings of the joint report published by FIDH, TRIAL, REDRESS, ECCHR, CJA and Civitas maxima on ongoing universal jurisdiction cases in 2020.
Complaint filed in Moscow against Wagner paramilitary fighters, on behalf of Syrian victim
22/03/2021 Louai Beshara / AFP
(Damascus, Moscow, Paris) Last Thursday, a family member of a Syrian citizen who was tortured, killed, and had his corpse mutilated by six individuals in 2017 in Homs Governorate filed a criminal complaint in Moscow. The complaint, facilitated by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and Memorial Human Rights Center, demands the initiation of criminal proceedings against alleged members of the so-called Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner.
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