Search: extraterritorial sanctions
15 Sep Weekly News Wrap: Monday, September 15, 2014
...sanctions imposed by the West and the country must react in a level-headed way, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told members of the country’s ruling party, United Russia, on Monday. Ukraine’s defense minister said on Sunday that NATO countries were delivering weapons to his country to equip it to fight pro-Russian separatists and “stop” Russian President Vladimir Putin. Investigators trying to find out who shot down Malaysia Airlines MH17 over eastern Ukraine have recovered 25 pieces of metal from baggage and bodies, which could lead them to the missile believed to...16 Feb Weekly News Wrap: Tuesday, February 16, 2016
...summit intended to improve commercial links and provide a united front on maritime disputes with Beijing. President Barack Obama’s top national security adviser Susan Rice said on Monday that she expects China will support new international sanctions on North Korea for its recent rocket launches. Europe David Cameron fended off changes on Tuesday to a draft deal he has cut to help keep Britain in the EU, as the European parliament said it could not guarantee to pass the reforms. In a European transit camp, women and girls explain why...
06 Sep The Occupation is Illegal. Now What?
...for example, the EU progressively imposed measures against Russia, including asset freezes and visa bans targeted on certain individuals, in addition to diplomatic, sectoral and economic sanctions, and the suspension of Russia from the G8. These organizations can use General Assembly resolutions as a springboard. Individual Action While cooperation is encouraged, states have an individual obligation to bring the breach to an end. As the ICJ mentioned in the Bosnia v. Serbia case, if all states acted individually “the combined efforts of several States, each complying with its obligation to...12 Apr An Unusual Setback for the New Jersey Nets
...they vetted this deal.” He said the project received tax-exempt bonds. “It’s being financed partly by the taxpayer, and the public has a right to know,” he said. Prokhorov’s Renaissance Capital investment bank has interests in the Zimbabwean stock exchange, banks, a cellphone company, mining and a swanky, private big-game reserve. The company is intertwined with Onexim, the $25 billion Prokhorov-controlled investment fund behind the deal to bring the struggling NBA team to Brooklyn. Pascrell said he will ask the Treasury Department, which oversees the sanctions, to investigate Onexim. In...14 Dec Assange: Non-Citizenship Should Be Irrelevant to Possible Espionage Charges
...of the actor, the nature of the recipient(s), and the nature of the information. If the intent to harm a nation's security interests is present, I have trouble accepting an argument that potential criminal culpability should stop with the first non-citizen or non-government employee who receives (rather than extracts) and then further discloses a government's secrets. Of course, the biggest obstacle to prosecuting a violation of an extraterritorially applied domestic law is the lack of legitimate extraterritorial enforcement power. Merely having an applicable law on the books does not automatically...14 Dec The Mitchell Report and the “Illegal” Use of Performance Enhancing Substances
...of any prescription drug without a valid prescription was prohibited in baseball, and even earlier under federal law. In 1971, baseball’s drug policy required compliance with federal, state, and local drug laws and directed baseball’s athletic trainers that anabolic steroids should only be provided to players under a physician’s guidance. Problem is, under traditional rules of extraterritoriality, the federal regulation of the use of performance enhancing substances does not obviously apply when such use occurs in other countries. And various sections of the Mitchell Report detail allegations of “illegal” use...29 Jul Military Commissions Moving Ahead
...Guantanamo are serving any of these purposes. To the extent they may be justified in this context at all, it is as the only forum in which it is possible to charge violations of the law of war – either because there is no relevant charging offense under federal criminal law, or because federal criminal law did not at the time extend to cover extraterritorial offenses. I suppose other justifications might be offered, and I’d be happy to have them. But I doubt the we-can’t-win-under-the-evidentiary-standards-in-Article-III-court rationale is one of them....