Sentences with phrase «in war crimes tribunals»

When your spouse is verbally attacking you, calling you every bad name in the book, and accusing you of the sorts of atrocities that are typically only seen in war crimes tribunals, it is hard not to take it personally.

He was the first person since the Second World War to be prosecuted in a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile.

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Praljak was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2013 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, nearly half of which had already been served after he surrendered to the tribunal in 2004.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

Fundamentally, Laughland doesn't understand the objections to the positivist legal philosophy that he, in his eagerness to accuse war crimes tribunals of retrospectivity, so casually adopts.

«I would like to see Tony Blair in front of a war crimes tribunal for sending this country to war illegally and for the appalling human consequences which resulted,» he said.

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimeIn May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimein absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

Once again starring Pilou Asbæk, the film portrays a Danish Army major whose life begins to unravel after he causes the death of a dozen women and children during a high - risk mission in Afghanistan and now faces a war - crimes tribunal... Gaspar Noé is back!

In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunWar II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunwar crimes tribunal.

He is quickly talked into a new job as a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a war crimes tribunal.

Of the 120,000 charged with war - crimes, to date only 5,000 have been tried in Rwandan courts, and just 17 have been convicted by a UN-appointed tribunal.

«Unlike in Sierra Leone, no tribunal has been established in Liberia to hold accountable those who committed war crimes or crimes against humanity during the civil war,» said Alley.

Attorney Ned Ogueri Zeribe Law Office: Following the Second World War, the Allied Powers created a tribunal in charge of handling the numerous crimes committed by the Nazis.