Thank you!

All the details can be found in our article 👇, which outlines the justice initiatives currently underway in each country, as well as the work of national and international courts/mechanisms.

www.justiceinfo.net/en/153370-ju...

+ 10 countries around the world are dealing with Syrian cases, under the principle of #UniversalJurisdiction.

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.

No worries, it’s not universal knowledge of course. I’ve been working on these issues for a while and familiarized with the Dutch legal system in the meantime :) would love to write something but I prefer to do that later, once the dust has settled

This is precisely what I’ve told @margheritacapacci.bsky.social when she asked me about this trial. It’s a first. (Hopefully not the last.) Let’s remain vigilant but let’s not ask prosecutors to do what the law doesn’t allow them to do. www.justiceinfo.net/en/152885-mi...

Having said that, it is a fact that as of today, only “small fries” and migrants who accepted to become torturers or otherwise collaborated with traffickers have been prosecuted in Europe (esp. in Italy). The trial against Walid is an attempt at casting the prosecutors’ net a bit wider… Let’s hope.

This issue has been explained very thoroughly in an episode of @asymmetricalh.bsky.social discussing the investigations into crimes committed against migrants in Libya www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...