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Moreover, all countries should recognize the authority of the international courts, such as the International Criminal Court, to facilitate
prosecution
of those who violate humanitarian law.
Decisive policy action, supported by more rigorous enforcement of relevant laws, is needed to improve reporting and
prosecution
rates, which remain low in many countries.
Europe, like America - indeed, like the entire capitalist world - must now become more hawkish in demanding
prosecution
and punishment of bosses who loot their companies.
But, as the accompanying amendment to grant immunity from
prosecution
to sitting heads of state and senior officials clearly demonstrates, it is actually a transparent effort to let guilty parties off scot-free.
These courts have held hundreds of important trials, almost all them involving the
prosecution
of guerrilla leaders and high-level officials – including heads of state – who had played a major role in large-scale atrocities.
In no other area of medicine and law would an unproved hypothesis provide a basis for diagnosis, let alone criminal
prosecution.
Reporters may face criminal
prosecution
for publishing inaccurate information; apparently, this is the basis for the reference to "access to information."
His only hope of fending off the magistrates was to control parliament and introduce new laws that would stop the series of corruption trials he faces--a strategy that has now given him immunity from
prosecution
until he leaves office.
Yet, to my knowledge, none of those investigations so far has resulted in the criminal
prosecution
and punishment of any Israeli soldier or official for a human-rights abuse committed against a civilian in Gaza.
Prime Minister Putin used the popularity he gained through his
prosecution
of the Chechen war to support Unity and the Union of Right Forces.
Those demands were mostly uncontroversial for Egypt’s revolutionaries, including Islamists: the release of political prisoners; a halt to military tribunals for civilians;
prosecution
of the murderers of protesters (many of whom are senior police officers); a purge of corrupt Mubarak allies from the police force; and a public trial for Mubarak and his regime’s top henchmen.
The 54-member AU considered voting as a bloc to withdraw from the Rome Statute, but decided instead to demand that the ICC halt the
prosecution
of sitting heads of state.
Moreover, the BJP had opposed interaction with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, pending satisfactory progress on the
prosecution
and punishment of the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 164 people and injured more than 300.
Voters, indeed, increasingly see through such cynical toying with ethnic and religious divisions, for it is clear that prompt arrest and
prosecution
of those who instigated the Godhra incident would have brought independent voters flocking to the BJP.
But a lack of implementation and enforcement of anti-money-laundering, tax transparency, and anti-corruption rules is shielding the perpetrators from
prosecution.
Putin is immune from any kind of prosecution, and he refuses to extradite Lugovoi and Kovtun to face murder charges.
An internationalized court in Iraq for the
prosecution
of crimes against humanity would contribute to the development of a national justice system that will actually deliver justice for all Iraqis, and will thus assist the already encouraging efforts of the Iraqi Governing Council towards democracy.
While FBI Director James Comey decided not to recommend
prosecution
of Clinton for the email issue, he hurt her campaign by commenting that she’d been “extremely careless.”
Under the responsibility to protect (R2P) principles that the UN General Assembly unanimously endorsed in 2005, coercive military action to stop atrocities should be contemplated only when peaceful means – from diplomatic persuasion to sanctions and threats of criminal
prosecution
– prove inadequate.
He passed several measures to safeguard himself and his entourage against prosecution, arguing all the while that communists were conspiring to bring him down.
Originally financed by the European Union and others involved in the 1996 peace agreements, which ended 36 years of civil war, CICIG aimed to aid in the investigation and
prosecution
“of the crimes committed by members of the illegal bodies of security.”
Through the rigorous investigation and
prosecution
of atrocity crimes (including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes), these courts provide clear rebuttals to attempts at denial or revisionism by politicians and extremists.
Women can be Amazons; recall Thatcher’s
prosecution
of the Falklands War and her admonition to George H.W. Bush not to “go wobbly” in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
Bishop Williamson’s ideas may be loathsome, but criminal
prosecution
against a man for his views about history is probably a bad idea.
In Egypt, the initial understanding was that the military establishment would demand constitutional and legal immunity from
prosecution
for its leaders; continuation of its off-budget, tax-free investments; and a veto on “high politics,” including national security and critical foreign policy issues.
And, while the
prosecution
rate constituted a minimal improvement on previous years, when less than 15% of cases ended up in court, the conviction rate for reported rapes “is markedly lower today than it was in 1965.”
And while Saudi Arabia has now admitted that the journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, the ongoing investigation of the case is equally unlikely to lead to the
prosecution
of all those responsible for his disappearance.
Fanning the Flames of Justice in SyriaCHICAGO – Justice will be a long time coming in Syria, but it can begin with a Security Council referral of the situation in that wounded country to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for investigation and, ultimately,
prosecution.
The implicit immunity from
prosecution
these groups received in exchange for their demobilization has done little to help.
Now even former President Jacques Chirac has learned that he is not immune from
prosecution.
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