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Despite the urging of staff members, leaders of these missions avoided launching criminal investigations into the missing.
The US should use its political clout with Albania and Kosovo to press for a thorough investigation, and for criminal proceedings against anyone who is implicated.
Albanians are outraged at the allegations that UCK members engaged in war crimes and other criminal behavior.
Likewise, an attorney’s knowledge of the personalities of the principals in a civil suit or a criminal case can be combined with big data and analytics when the time comes for jury selection.
Finally, an independent criminal tribunal must be set up to investigate the June Fourth massacre, and those found responsible for the killings and other atrocities, including former Premier Li Peng, must be indicted and brought to trial without impunity.
Women must be able to base their reproductive choices on their own physical and emotional needs and desires, not on the moral judgments of powerful agents or risk of criminal sanctions.
As a result, when Pinochet was returned to Chile sixteen months later, on medical grounds, he faced revived criminal charges filed by victims and survivors of his rule.
Last October, seventeen victims and survivors filed criminal complaints in Chad for murder, "disappearance," and torture against one-time members of Habre's secret service.
An artificial-intelligence-enhanced security system can spot criminal suspects as they cycle beside a lake or purchase dumplings from a street vendor, and immediately alert the police.
The “passionate intensity” of the populists conveys a simple, easily grasped, and now resonant message: the elites are selfish, corrupt, and often criminal.
Consider a career criminal who robs and kills a victim who led a decent life and left several children and a spouse behind.
Suppose it would be possible to save the life of an innocent victim by executing such a criminal.
So is the fact that state officials threatened Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger with criminal charges and forced Guardian employees to destroy computer equipment at the newspaper’s offices.
But Russia is a kaleidoscope of ethnicities and cultures, whose efforts to assert themselves were dismissed in the very same address as the criminal behavior of “ethnic mafias.”
As is true of many people, what first springs to Dawkins’ mind when he thinks of law is criminal law.
Most lawyers and judges never enter a criminal court.
It has fostered the establishment of additional ad hoc international criminal courts with jurisdiction over such countries as Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Lebanon.
The perpetrators of the Madrid and London bombings were prosecuted in ordinary criminal trials.
In many EU member states, criminal law has been strengthened and is being used to prevent attacks.
Membership of a terrorist organization, including those operating on foreign soil, training and recruiting people for terrorism, and promotion of terrorism have been made criminal offenses.
According to the latest United Nations estimates, more than 100,000 Syrians, including many children, have lost their lives as a result of the criminal behavior of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Why make such a statement, when it can bring only chagrin and despair to the victims, and comfort and solace to a criminal regime?
Fourth, in recent months opposition leaders and human rights activists have been subjected to criminal charges for speech critical of the government.
Draft legislation seeks to make criminal defamation a permanent fixture, and includes new provisions making it an offense to criticize a court ruling.
While the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual-assault charges now seems highly uncertain, the ensuing press focus on the IMF suggests an uncontrolled international bureaucracy with unlimited expense accounts, dominated by men with little sense of restraint.
Many human-rights advocates believe that large-scale abuses – like the killings of an enormous number of noncombatants that took place in Sri Lanka – can be addressed only through criminal prosecution of those with the highest level of responsibility.
From Kabul to Pristina, from Ramallah to Kinshasa, the EU is monitoring borders, overseeing peace agreements, training police forces, building up criminal justice systems and protecting shipping from pirate attacks.
We already have a mission in the West Bank helping to build up the Palestinian civil police and criminal justice system.
There is something criminal in the determination of some Israeli forces to destroy this opportunity, and something tragic in the helplessness of the rest of Israeli society to prevent it.
Regardless of whether Trump directly praises Duterte’s program, or says nothing about it at all, his mere presence will be interpreted as a signal to law enforcement there, in the United States, and elsewhere that corruption and criminal violence in the service of a policy goal is acceptable.
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