Ambassador Rapp discusses the need for CIJA’s battlefield investigations in The Syria Trials Podcast: Innovation
CIJA’s Commissioner Ambassador Rapp and Fritz Streiff discuss the need for CIJA’s battlefield investigation in Syria and its importance in securing justice in the Syria Trials Podcast (S1:E10) on Innovations in international criminal justice for Syria. They discuss how CIJA was able to access evidence in areas of Syria that had fallen to the moderate opposition, including Aleppo and Idlib, showing how NGOs can conduct battlefield investigations and how the Syrian regime and its security agencies abandoned 1000’s of pages of incriminating documents. CIJA’s Syrian investigators were able to meticulously collect, store and move these materials to secure locations to be processed, preserved and archived: “a lot of this material would have ended up being burned to stay warm in the winter” says Ambassador Rapp. But more than 1 million pages were collected, preserved and analysed, contributing to several criminal trials, including the unlawful killing verdict of US journalist Marie Colvin by the US District Court in a case brought by the Center for Justice and Accountability, which Streiff acknowledges was “the first judgement in open court that heavily relied on documents and legal analysis provided by CIJA.”
CIJA’s Commissioner Ambassador Rapp and Fritz Streiff discuss the need for CIJA’s battlefield investigation in Syria and its importance in securing justice in the Syria Trials Podcast (S1:E10) on Innovations in international criminal justice for Syria. They discuss how CIJA was able to access evidence in areas of Syria that had fallen to the moderate opposition, including Aleppo and Idlib, showing how NGOs can conduct battlefield investigations and how the Syrian regime and its security agencies abandoned 1000’s of pages of incriminating documents. CIJA’s Syrian investigators were able to meticulously collect, store and move these materials to secure locations to be processed, preserved and archived: “a lot of this material would have ended up being burned to stay warm in the winter” says Ambassador Rapp. But more than 1 million pages were collected, preserved and analysed, contributing to several criminal trials, including the unlawful killing verdict of US journalist Marie Colvin by the US District Court in a case brought by the Center for Justice and Accountability, which Streiff acknowledges was “the first judgement in open court that heavily relied on documents and legal analysis provided by CIJA.”
Nerma Jelacic on “The Contribution of Justice Paths to Provisioning Justice to Victims and Establishing a Safe Environment”
On 17 November 2022, Nerma Jelacic spoke at Roadmap to a Safe Environment in Syria, convened by the Syrian Association for Citizens Dignity, the Free Syrian Lawyers Association and the European Institute of Peace, in Geneva. As part of the panel “The Contribution of Justice Paths to Providing Justice to Victims and Establishing a Safe Environment” Nerma considered some of the challenges and constraints in achieving criminal justice for Syrian victims, despite the Syrian conflict being one of the best documented conflicts in recent history. She also reflected on the importance of remaining persistent, where the overwhelming evidence of Regime criminality may continue to serve Syrian victims in their search for justice and accountability into the future.
Image: screengrab of the livestream, @SyrianACD, Twitter
On 17 November 2022, Nerma Jelacic spoke at Roadmap to a Safe Environment in Syria, convened by the Syrian Association for Citizens Dignity, the Free Syrian Lawyers Association and the European Institute of Peace, in Geneva. As part of the panel “The Contribution of Justice Paths to Providing Justice to Victims and Establishing a Safe Environment” Nerma considered some of the challenges and constraints in achieving criminal justice for Syrian victims, despite the Syrian conflict being one of the best documented conflicts in recent history. She also reflected on the importance of remaining persistent, where the overwhelming evidence of Regime criminality may continue to serve Syrian victims in their search for justice and accountability into the future.
Image: screengrab of the livestream, @SyrianACD, Twitter
Chris Engels on “Protection of Victims and Witnesses in Atrocity Trials”
On 19 September, CIJA’s Director of Investigations and Operations participated in the Atlantic Council’s panel “Protection of Victims and Witnesses in Atrocity Trials” held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Chris Engels joined Ambassador Beth Van Schaack (US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice), Deborah Amos (International Correspondent, NPR) and Myriam Fillaud (Lead Investigator, UNITAD) where he discussed CIJA’s role as an NGO investigating international crimes and its support to public authorities.
Photo credit: Gissou Nia, Twitter
On 19 September, CIJA’s Director of Investigations and Operations participated in the Atlantic Council’s panel “Protection of Victims and Witnesses in Atrocity Trials” held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Chris Engels joined Ambassador Beth Van Schaack (US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice), Deborah Amos (International Correspondent, NPR) and Myriam Fillaud (Lead Investigator, UNITAD) where he discussed CIJA’s role as an NGO investigating international crimes and its support to public authorities.
Photo credit: Gissou Nia, Twitter
CIJA Publishes its 2021-2022 Annual Report
CIJA’s 2020-2021 Annual Report showcases the organisation’s remarkable progress and achievements in furthering criminal justice efforts for core international crimes. Alongside our investigative and analytical results and critical contributions to the first verdicts against Syrian Regime officials, the report details CIJA’s four-year Myanmar investigation, which concluded successfully in March 2022.
CIJA’s 2020-2021 Annual Report showcases the organisation’s remarkable progress and achievements in furthering criminal justice efforts for core international crimes. Alongside our investigative and analytical results and critical contributions to the first verdicts against Syrian Regime officials, the report details CIJA’s four-year Myanmar investigation, which concluded successfully in March 2022.
‘Like an open prison’: A million Rohingya refugees still in Bangladesh camps
The Guardian reports on the plight of Rohingya refugees and highlights CIJA-held evidence of the planning and commission of their persecution by Myanmar’s Armed Forces.
Read the full article here.
The Guardian reports on the plight of Rohingya refugees and highlights CIJA-held evidence of the planning and commission of their persecution by Myanmar’s Armed Forces.
Read the full article here.
CIJA Report: investigation into crimes against minorities in Myanmar
After a four-year investigation CIJA presents its findings including the identification of high level suspects responsible for genocide against the Rohingya people.
After a four-year investigation CIJA presents its findings including the identification of high level suspects responsible for genocide against the Rohingya people.
New evidence shows how Myanmar’s military planned its purge of the Rohingya
In an exclusive report, Reuters draws on CIJA-collected evidence to showcase the planning and execution of Tatmadaw’s violent campaign against the Rohingya in Myanmar.
In an exclusive report, Reuters draws on CIJA-collected evidence to showcase the planning and execution of Tatmadaw’s violent campaign against the Rohingya in Myanmar.
Nerma Jelacic speaks at ELAC Oxford Conference
Nerma Jelacic spoke at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict where she discussed CIJA’s upstream contributions to accountability for mass atrocities. Read More
D’Alessandra et al., ‘Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities; The Permanent Support Needed to Fulfil UN Investigative Mandates’ (The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, May 2022), https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/Anchoring%20Accountability%20for%20Mass%20Atrocities%20Report.pdf, accessed 12 July 2022.
Nerma Jelacic spoke at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict where she discussed CIJA’s upstream contributions to accountability for mass atrocities. Read More
D’Alessandra et al., ‘Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities; The Permanent Support Needed to Fulfil UN Investigative Mandates’ (The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, May 2022), https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/Anchoring%20Accountability%20for%20Mass%20Atrocities%20Report.pdf, accessed 12 July 2022.
Bill Wiley on Criminal Investigations in the Ukraine
Speaking with BBC Worldwide, CIJA’s Bill Wiley discusses the legal requirements of proving that war crimes took place in Bucha, Ukraine.
Wiley emphasizes the need of identifying the Russian structures and units in Bucha at the time of the killings. Watch Here
Speaking with BBC Worldwide, CIJA’s Bill Wiley discusses the legal requirements of proving that war crimes took place in Bucha, Ukraine.
Wiley emphasizes the need of identifying the Russian structures and units in Bucha at the time of the killings. Watch Here
Evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity in Ukraine but not genocide: Veteran investigator
In an interview with CBC, CIJA Executive Director discussed the atrocities in the Ukraine and the clear perpetration of war crimes. Watch Here
In an interview with CBC, CIJA Executive Director discussed the atrocities in the Ukraine and the clear perpetration of war crimes. Watch Here
How war crimes investigators do their jobs in evidence-rich Ukraine
Bill Wiley discusses the importance of linkage evidence and the significant role it plays in a war crimes investigation. Read More
Bill Wiley discusses the importance of linkage evidence and the significant role it plays in a war crimes investigation. Read More
Mapping Putin’s War on Civilians
In this New Statesman article which tracks potential war crimes incidents in Ukraine, Bill Wiley discusses the Russian military’s modus operandi being put into place in Ukraine. Read More
In this New Statesman article which tracks potential war crimes incidents in Ukraine, Bill Wiley discusses the Russian military’s modus operandi being put into place in Ukraine. Read More
Ukraine War: Can War Crimes Be Proven?
Bill Wiley discusses collecting evidence of war crimes in a SkyNews interview, emphasizing the importance of looking at patterns and finding material generated by the attacking force. Watch Here
Bill Wiley discusses collecting evidence of war crimes in a SkyNews interview, emphasizing the importance of looking at patterns and finding material generated by the attacking force. Watch Here
Already Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine, Says Expert
The Sunday Post interviewed Bill Wiley on war crimes evidence in Ukraine.
“We look at patterns because it’s very hard to build a case around a specific shelling incident…” Wiley says, drawing on his experience of collecting evidence on war criminals. Read More
The Sunday Post interviewed Bill Wiley on war crimes evidence in Ukraine.
“We look at patterns because it’s very hard to build a case around a specific shelling incident…” Wiley says, drawing on his experience of collecting evidence on war criminals. Read More
Investigating Possible War Crimes in Ukraine
Bill Wiley reflects on the challenges of establishing an investigation in Ukraine and considers evidence needed to secure future convictions in an interview with CTV News. Watch Here
Bill Wiley reflects on the challenges of establishing an investigation in Ukraine and considers evidence needed to secure future convictions in an interview with CTV News. Watch Here
‘Leave no stone unturned’: how investigators gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine
CIJA Executive Director Bill Wiley spoke to The Guardian’s Julian Borger about the challenges of collecting battlefield evidence amid active conflict. Read More
CIJA Executive Director Bill Wiley spoke to The Guardian’s Julian Borger about the challenges of collecting battlefield evidence amid active conflict. Read More
Ukraine takes Russia to court, but Moscow’s representatives are a no-show
Demand for criminal-justice accountability in Ukraine is growing. How can those most responsible for serious crimes be held to account? CIJA Executive Director Bill Wiley and Chair of the Board Stephen Rapp discuss in The Washington Post. Read More
Demand for criminal-justice accountability in Ukraine is growing. How can those most responsible for serious crimes be held to account? CIJA Executive Director Bill Wiley and Chair of the Board Stephen Rapp discuss in The Washington Post. Read More
Building a War Crimes Case Against Putin Is Harder Than You Think
Executive Director Bill Wiley draws on CIJA's unprecedented work in Syria and Iraq to outline the steps required for effective collection and preservation of war crimes evidence in Ukraine. Read More
Executive Director Bill Wiley draws on CIJA's unprecedented work in Syria and Iraq to outline the steps required for effective collection and preservation of war crimes evidence in Ukraine. Read More
CIJA Issues Press Release on Slain Islamic State Leader
The United States of America confirmed the death of the leader of Islamic State terrorist organisation (‘IS’) Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi AKA “Hajji Abdullah” today, 3 February 2022, at approximately 00H00 local Syrian time.
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) conducted investigations into atrocities authored by Hajji Abdullah, whose real name is Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, since 2015. Evidence amassed by the non-governmental organisation through investigations on the ground in Syria and Iraq showed his potential criminal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and other offences such as human trafficking.
Hajji Abdullah, who had a bounty of up to USD $10 million on his head for information leading to his capture, was a high-ranking IS member who succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the Caliph of IS following the latter’s death during a US military operation in October 2019.
Prior to that, Hajji Abdullah was a member of the IS Delegated Committee, the group’s senior executive body. A trove of evidence gathered by the non-governmental organisation CIJA over a number of years shows how he served as IS’s senior judge and Sharia law official in Iraq from 2014, exercising religious authority over all IS activity across that country. By April 2015, he was widely known as a deputy to Al-Baghdadi. He was designated by both the United Nations and the United States of America as a wanted terrorist for his role.
According to Nerma Jelacic, Deputy Director of CIJA, “Hajji Abdullah had enormous power to persecute and punish IS’s enemies as far back as 2014. Not only was he one of the key architects of the Islamic State slave trade in Yazidi women and children, he personally enslaved and raped captive women.”
CIJA believes it had gathered sufficient evidence to accuse Hajji Abdullah of genocide, extermination, slavery, rape, gender-based persecution, and a host of other crimes. As a Delegated Committee member and one of the group’s senior ideologues, Hajji Abdullah was responsible for all Yazidi prisoners held in Iraq after they had been captured during IS’s Sinjar military operation in August 2014. In this capacity, he oversaw the distribution of Yazidi women, together with young children, to IS members as sabaya (female spoils of war). Moreover, he was responsible for forced conversions of those it considered to be infidels to Islam and the massacre of hundreds of Yazidi men and boys.
Believed to be of Turkmen origins, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla was an Iraqi national born in October 1976. Hajji Abdullah was a religious scholar in IS’s former incarnations, Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Islamic State in Iraq, during the 2000s and was detained between 2008 and 2011 at Camp Bucca. He was thought to have been wounded in an airstrike, resulting in the amputation of his leg by late 2014.
Notes to Editors:
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to furthering criminal justice efforts through investigations, in order to prevent the loss and destruction of vital evidence for the purpose of supporting prosecutorial efforts to end impunity, whether at the domestic or international level.
To date, CIJA has:
Completed 24 structural investigations and legal briefs identifying dozens of high-ranking Syrian Regime and Islamic State suspects;
Secured over 1,000,000 pages of documents generated by the parties within the Syrian regime and the Islamic State;
Interviewed over 3,000 witnesses including defectors, individuals with direct knowledge of perpetrating parties and their structures as well as victims.
CIJA is apolitical and carries out its investigative activities independently of any government. CIJA currently works to support prosecutions in 13 countries and assists 37 law enforcement and counter-terrorism organisations globally.
The United States of America confirmed the death of the leader of Islamic State terrorist organisation (‘IS’) Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi AKA “Hajji Abdullah” today, 3 February 2022, at approximately 00H00 local Syrian time.
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) conducted investigations into atrocities authored by Hajji Abdullah, whose real name is Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, since 2015. Evidence amassed by the non-governmental organisation through investigations on the ground in Syria and Iraq showed his potential criminal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and other offences such as human trafficking.
Hajji Abdullah, who had a bounty of up to USD $10 million on his head for information leading to his capture, was a high-ranking IS member who succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the Caliph of IS following the latter’s death during a US military operation in October 2019.
Prior to that, Hajji Abdullah was a member of the IS Delegated Committee, the group’s senior executive body. A trove of evidence gathered by the non-governmental organisation CIJA over a number of years shows how he served as IS’s senior judge and Sharia law official in Iraq from 2014, exercising religious authority over all IS activity across that country. By April 2015, he was widely known as a deputy to Al-Baghdadi. He was designated by both the United Nations and the United States of America as a wanted terrorist for his role.
According to Nerma Jelacic, Deputy Director of CIJA, “Hajji Abdullah had enormous power to persecute and punish IS’s enemies as far back as 2014. Not only was he one of the key architects of the Islamic State slave trade in Yazidi women and children, he personally enslaved and raped captive women.”
CIJA believes it had gathered sufficient evidence to accuse Hajji Abdullah of genocide, extermination, slavery, rape, gender-based persecution, and a host of other crimes. As a Delegated Committee member and one of the group’s senior ideologues, Hajji Abdullah was responsible for all Yazidi prisoners held in Iraq after they had been captured during IS’s Sinjar military operation in August 2014. In this capacity, he oversaw the distribution of Yazidi women, together with young children, to IS members as sabaya (female spoils of war). Moreover, he was responsible for forced conversions of those it considered to be infidels to Islam and the massacre of hundreds of Yazidi men and boys.
Believed to be of Turkmen origins, Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla was an Iraqi national born in October 1976. Hajji Abdullah was a religious scholar in IS’s former incarnations, Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Islamic State in Iraq, during the 2000s and was detained between 2008 and 2011 at Camp Bucca. He was thought to have been wounded in an airstrike, resulting in the amputation of his leg by late 2014.
Notes to Editors:
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to furthering criminal justice efforts through investigations, in order to prevent the loss and destruction of vital evidence for the purpose of supporting prosecutorial efforts to end impunity, whether at the domestic or international level.
To date, CIJA has:
Completed 24 structural investigations and legal briefs identifying dozens of high-ranking Syrian Regime and Islamic State suspects;
Secured over 1,000,000 pages of documents generated by the parties within the Syrian regime and the Islamic State;
Interviewed over 3,000 witnesses including defectors, individuals with direct knowledge of perpetrating parties and their structures as well as victims.
CIJA is apolitical and carries out its investigative activities independently of any government. CIJA currently works to support prosecutions in 13 countries and assists 37 law enforcement and counter-terrorism organisations globally.
Koblenz Court Issues Verdict in the Case of Anwar Raslan
On 13 January, the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany found Anwar Raslan, a former colonel in the Syrian regime, guilty of co-perpetration of crimes against humanity in the form of torture, murder in 27 cases, assault in 25 cases, in addition to several counts of rape and sexual assault. The verdict carries a custodial sentence of life imprisonment. Raslan is so far the highest-ranking Syrian official convicted for crimes against humanity committed in the course of the Syrian conflict.
Raslan is convicted for his conduct as Head of Interrogations at Branch 251 of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate between April 2011 and September 2012. Insider witnesses have described the branch as the most effective, dangerous and secretive branch of General Intelligence.
The court’s decision constitutes a landmark judgement, the significance of which extends far beyond the specifics of the individual case. The court has found that the crimes under examination were committed as part of the Syrian government’s widespread and systematic attack against its civilian population, which began in the early days of the country’s 2011 popular uprising.
CIJA has assisted the German Federal Police investigation of this case since 2017 and the prosecution since Raslan's arrest in 2019. This assistance drew on CIJA’s unprecedented evidence archive, secured by its investigators in Syria, and came in the form of documentary evidence, insider witness interviews as well as expert testimony. Of particular relevance to the case were over 600 documents linked to Branch 251, including General Intelligence directives and interrogation reports, some bearing Raslan's signature, as well as 13 interviews with former Branch employees. Further, CIJA was able to provide authorities with documentation and insider witness interviews about Raslan’s tenure as Head of Interrogations at a different General Intelligence branch - Branch 285, where abuse and torture have been documented.
In November 2020, CIJA’s Director of Operations and Investigations testified as an expert witness before the court in Koblenz. In an extensive two-day testimony, CIJA provided a thorough contextual analysis of the regime’s security-intelligence apparatus and its widespread and systematic use of torture in detention, the role of Branch 251 in suppressing dissent as well as Raslan’s individual criminal responsibility. The complex expert testimony drew on hundreds of CIJA-secured documents, which were entered into evidence at the request of the judges. In the course of over a hundred days of trial hearings, CIJA-secured evidence, analysis and testimony have been continuously referenced.
“This conviction is a critically important measure of justice for the survivors and victims of the Syrian regime. CIJA is honored to see its evidence was a foundational part of this historic conviction. As our investigators continue collecting evidence of Assad’s atrocities and tracking regime officials in Europe, we expect to see more such trials in the near future. Our thoughts are with our Syrian colleagues whose selfless work behind the scenes of the world’s most dangerous conflict continues to feed investigations and prosecutions in Europe.”
– Nerma Jelacic, CIJA Director for Management and External Relations
This is the second judgement addressing state-sponsored torture in Syria following the 2021 verdict in the case of Eyad, A, a former Syrian security-service agent and associate of Anwar Raslan at Branch 251, who was found guilty of aiding and abetting 30 counts of crimes against humanity committed in Damascus.
CIJA has been investigating crimes committed in Syria since 2012. Since then, its teams of Syrian investigators have amassed over 1,000,000 pages of Syrian regime documentation constituting the largest cache of documentary evidence ever secured in the course of an ongoing conflict. To date, CIJA’s analysts have answered over 600 requests for assistance from public authorities concerning over 2,000 individual targets. CIJA is currently cooperating with 15 ongoing investigations and provides continuous support to 36 law enforcement agencies from 13 countries.
On 13 January, the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany found Anwar Raslan, a former colonel in the Syrian regime, guilty of co-perpetration of crimes against humanity in the form of torture, murder in 27 cases, assault in 25 cases, in addition to several counts of rape and sexual assault. The verdict carries a custodial sentence of life imprisonment. Raslan is so far the highest-ranking Syrian official convicted for crimes against humanity committed in the course of the Syrian conflict.
Raslan is convicted for his conduct as Head of Interrogations at Branch 251 of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate between April 2011 and September 2012. Insider witnesses have described the branch as the most effective, dangerous and secretive branch of General Intelligence.
The court’s decision constitutes a landmark judgement, the significance of which extends far beyond the specifics of the individual case. The court has found that the crimes under examination were committed as part of the Syrian government’s widespread and systematic attack against its civilian population, which began in the early days of the country’s 2011 popular uprising.
CIJA has assisted the German Federal Police investigation of this case since 2017 and the prosecution since Raslan's arrest in 2019. This assistance drew on CIJA’s unprecedented evidence archive, secured by its investigators in Syria, and came in the form of documentary evidence, insider witness interviews as well as expert testimony. Of particular relevance to the case were over 600 documents linked to Branch 251, including General Intelligence directives and interrogation reports, some bearing Raslan's signature, as well as 13 interviews with former Branch employees. Further, CIJA was able to provide authorities with documentation and insider witness interviews about Raslan’s tenure as Head of Interrogations at a different General Intelligence branch - Branch 285, where abuse and torture have been documented.
In November 2020, CIJA’s Director of Operations and Investigations testified as an expert witness before the court in Koblenz. In an extensive two-day testimony, CIJA provided a thorough contextual analysis of the regime’s security-intelligence apparatus and its widespread and systematic use of torture in detention, the role of Branch 251 in suppressing dissent as well as Raslan’s individual criminal responsibility. The complex expert testimony drew on hundreds of CIJA-secured documents, which were entered into evidence at the request of the judges. In the course of over a hundred days of trial hearings, CIJA-secured evidence, analysis and testimony have been continuously referenced.
“This conviction is a critically important measure of justice for the survivors and victims of the Syrian regime. CIJA is honored to see its evidence was a foundational part of this historic conviction. As our investigators continue collecting evidence of Assad’s atrocities and tracking regime officials in Europe, we expect to see more such trials in the near future. Our thoughts are with our Syrian colleagues whose selfless work behind the scenes of the world’s most dangerous conflict continues to feed investigations and prosecutions in Europe.”
– Nerma Jelacic, CIJA Director for Management and External Relations
This is the second judgement addressing state-sponsored torture in Syria following the 2021 verdict in the case of Eyad, A, a former Syrian security-service agent and associate of Anwar Raslan at Branch 251, who was found guilty of aiding and abetting 30 counts of crimes against humanity committed in Damascus.
CIJA has been investigating crimes committed in Syria since 2012. Since then, its teams of Syrian investigators have amassed over 1,000,000 pages of Syrian regime documentation constituting the largest cache of documentary evidence ever secured in the course of an ongoing conflict. To date, CIJA’s analysts have answered over 600 requests for assistance from public authorities concerning over 2,000 individual targets. CIJA is currently cooperating with 15 ongoing investigations and provides continuous support to 36 law enforcement agencies from 13 countries.