For all those who claimed that a case against the IRI for Crimes Against Humanity would be futile:
"Noting that, under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, torture and inhuman treatment are a grave breach and that, under the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, acts of torture can constitute crimes against humanity" ~ Page 1-2 of above UN Document.
This should back the case against the IRI establishment for perpetrating crimes against humanity, given their unparallelled record of torture of detainees for over thirty years.
To be pursued in which court?
ReplyDelete'Crimes Against Humanity' falls within the jurisdiction of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
ReplyDeleteAs you know this has to be approved by Security Council, would China and Russia go along?
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