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A lot would have depended on the political party that controlled the court.
Judgment in Phnom PenhThree decades after the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia’s seven million people, a court to try the most responsible surviving leaders is set to open its doors.
For reasons of history and as a matter of law, both the Cambodian government and the international community share responsibility for making this court a success.
Third, the court site is located in a military compound far from downtown Phnom Penh.
Civic groups and the court will need to develop creative outreach strategies to target the predominantly rural population to ensure that all Cambodians have the opportunity to understand these proceedings.
At the very least, court staff should work with local groups to convene meetings about the trials, and the issues they raise, in communities across the country.
Draft legislation seeks to make criminal defamation a permanent fixture, and includes new provisions making it an offense to criticize a court ruling.
Meaningful public engagement with the court requires an underlying environment that fosters – not punishes – the free expression of ideas.
They can best help the court by coordinating their actions, exercising robust oversight, and helping to identify – and, where necessary, solve – problems as they arise.
The court’s bare bones budget of $56 million over three years does not cover basics such as a safe house for protected witnesses, transcripts of court testimony, or a library.
How the court performs matters deeply to the millions of Cambodians scarred by the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
At the same time, this court is the latest manifestation of an enduring worldwide movement – which extends back to Nuremberg – to end impunity for mass atrocities.
Janissaries were not allowed to marry or to own property, which prevented them from developing loyalties outside of the imperial court.
Although the Hong Kong courts surely could have dealt with the issue themselves – under the “one country, two systems” framework, Hong Kong is assured an independent court system, in addition to the right to elect its own legislature – an enraged China intervened.
Coincidentally, in the same week that Germany and the World Jewish Congress rejected the idea that defamation of religion is an affront to human dignity, and upheld the right to freedom of expression, Germany’s highest court issued its ruling on a case brought by a Jewish organization, and two Jewish individuals.
The court ruled against the right of the United States-based animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to exhibit posters that juxtapose photographs of victims of the Holocaust with photographs of animals in factory farms and at slaughterhouses.
According to the court, Germany’s laws on freedom of speech did not protect PETA’s campaign, because to make “the fate of the victims of the Holocaust appear banal and trivial” was an offense against human dignity.
Such reforms should include dedicated redundancy schemes for bank employees (to facilitate consolidation), an overhaul of solvency law and court procedures (to redress repossession delays), and profound changes in corporate governance, particularly in the cooperative banking system.
Moscow liberals, initially treating the performance as silly, saw the threat of prison as inappropriate and the proceedings of the court as Kafkaesque and demented.
In China, there is no such protection, because private property was not legally recognized until recently, and the court system is not independent.
The distance between the Army and young democratic activists grew further on April 11, when a military court sentenced the first blogger since the fall of Mubarak to prison for criticizing the military.
Though some countries have fixed their court systems, streamlined their tax administrations, and begun to get a handle on corruption, the impact on financial markets has been uneven.
Financial markets leaped forward in eighteenth-century Great Britain, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Japan and the US – a time when several key institutions, such as corporate law and the court system, were woefully substandard.
Many are called “vulture funds” because they bought the debt at a steep discount from the original creditors, hoping to profit subsequently through court decisions.
By contrast, the US court rulings’ indulgence of a parochial instinct to enforce written contracts will undermine the possibility of negotiated re-structuring in future debt crises.
Prosecutors have issued another summons for her to appear in court on March 21; it is still unclear if she will, even though she has now lost her immunity from prosecution.
Earlier this month, a court dominated by CPP allies dissolved the CNRP.
He has been summoned three times by a Moscow criminal court to testify in a case against Alexei Ulyukaev, a former minister of economic development.
But Sechin has consistently failed to appear, with his office recently telling the court that he wouldn’t be available until next year.
But there is nothing standard about a Russian court ordering a figure of Sechin’s stature to testify publicly.
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