Search: extraterritorial sanctions
30 Apr Tariq Aziz’s Trial Begins
...gone on trial in Iraq on genocide charges, accused of approving the execution of scores of business people while the country was under economic sanctions. He has been in US custody for the last five years and if he is found guilty, he could face death by hanging. The 72-year-old entered the courtroom with a walking stick, looking frail and weak. He and seven others are on trial for executing 42 Baghdad merchants in 1992, who were accused of raising food prices at a time when Iraq was facing stiff...04 Jan The End of Russia´s Hybrid War against Ukraine?
...and that “Russia has de facto expanded its military aggression against Ukraine to the sea.” In the same statement, the MFA urged Ukraine´s “allies and partners to take all necessary measures to deter the aggressor, i.a. by applying new and strengthening existing sanctions, as well as by providing Ukraine with military assistance to protect its territorial integrity and sovereignty within the internationally recognized borders.” Russia´s Hybrid Use of Force against Ukraine It appears that the particular provision in the 1974 Definition of Aggression that Ukraine´s MFA referred to was subparagraph...24 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
...perform its nuclear test. Reports are emerging of women being raped in Northern Mali by Tuareg rebels. The UN Security Council has called for constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, following the April 12th military coup. Turkey says Israel is not welcome at the NATO summit. Myanmar activists are critical of the EU’s decision to suspend sanctions and are urging the US to press for more reforms before suspending or lifting its sanctions. The US Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization is sceptical that ICAO’s Assembly will be able to reach...28 Oct On What Basis Can the ICC Silence Ruto?
...or interfering with the collection of evidence; (d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties; (e) Retaliating against an official of the Court on account of duties performed by that or another official; (f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties. Article 71, in turn, addresses misconduct before the court: Article 71 Sanctions for misconduct...
07 Aug Symposium on The Principle of ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law: The Role of ne bis in idem in Transitional Justice – A Multi-level Approach to Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation
...criminal sanctions and thus do not trigger ne bis in idem concerns. However, the information they uncover can lead to subsequent prosecutions, raising questions about the interplay between truth-seeking and legal finality. Nuridzhanian’s framework suggests that while truth commissions operate outside the traditional judicial sphere, their findings must be carefully managed to respect the ne bis in idem principle when transitioning to formal prosecutions. Similarly, customary conflict resolution mechanisms, often rooted in local traditions, may resolve disputes and impose sanctions within communities. The recognition of these resolutions by formal legal...15 Jul Chemical weapons in Syria – German and Belgian companies complicit?
...and in terms of an EU sanctions they required formal approval before they could be exported. Isopropanol has been on the list since 2013 and diethylamine has been there since 2012. The organisations’ complaint therefore pertains to possible criminal violation of EU Regulation 36/2012 concerning controls on the sale, supply, transfer, or export to Syria, either in a direct manner or in an indirect manner. In the case of the German and Belgium respectively, approval should be obtained from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control and the Flemish...10 Jun Dear Secretary Tillerson (and the World Media): Qatar is NOT Under a “Blockade”
...are simply preventing anyone in their territories from traveling to or trading with Qatar. A blockade would mean that the Gulf nations actually used military force to interdict all shipping and flights into Qatar by any nation and through international waters. Israel has essentially established such a blockade of the Gaza Strip, but that has not happened to Qatar (yet). Until that happens, there is no blockade. Why is it so shocking that Secretary Tillerson did not recognize this legal distinction? Because the U.S. frequently engages in economic sanctions of...26 Jan Guest Post: On Business and Human Rights in Illegal Territorial Regimes
...their domestic rule of law, state authorities must ensure that their domestic law does not give legal effect to the basis for business activities in Israeli settlements. All business activities carried out under Israel’s illegal regime by the corporate nationals of law-abiding states would entail concrete legal risks under the company’s home-state law, insofar as those activities oblige the state to give legal effect to Israel’s internationally unlawful acts as though they were lawful. 3) The report’s recommendations to states fall short of adequately addressing foreign corporate involvement in extraterritorial...18 Jan Another Round on IHL and IHRL
...similar jurisprudence on the basis that the European Convention has a different scope of application provision than does the ICCPR. This is a reference to the old saw, also dismissed by the HR Committee, that the ICCPR has no extraterritorial application. But note that even if that were true, it would not be cause to deny complementarity between IHRL and IHL; it would only be cause to deny that a State has IHRL obligations when it, say, tortures people in wars on foreign lands, a position that, by the way,...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...