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ICC to Announce Decision on Arrest Warrant for Sudanese President Al-Bashir
The International Criminal Court will hold a press conference tomorrow at 12:45 GMT to announce its decision on the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Al-Jazeera today that the arrest would not take place within Sudan and that "no one will try to arrest Mr. Bashir in Sudan." Notably, according to the head of UN peacekeeping operations in Sudan, the UN peacekeepers would not be authorized to arrest President al-Bashir, despite the fact the Darfur situation was referred to the ICC by the UN Security Council. The ICC Prosecutor asserts that there is "strong evidence" of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Darfur since March 2003. The ICC will provide live online broadcasting of the al-Bashir arrest warrant press conference.
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Special Tribunal for Lebanon at the Hague
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon began Sunday at the Hague in the Netherlands to try suspects responsible for the car bomb blast four years ago in Beirut that killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. The international hybrid tribunal will apply domestic Lebanese criminal law, subject to two exceptions for permissible punishments. The maximum punishment will be life imprisonment rather than the death penalty or forced labor. The tribunal was established by the UN Security Council acting under its Chapter VII powers of the UN Charter at the request of the Lebanese government. It includes international and Lebanese judges and is expected to operate for three to five years. The prosecutor has 60 days to request a transfer of suspects from Lebanon.
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Return of the StateThis article is the extended address by José E. Alvarez, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, at the University of Minnesota Law School's conference on "International Economic Law in a Time of Change." Alvarez relects upon and rebuts a collection of papers on supra-nationalism presented at the conference. He argues that states, as sovereign entities, are making a comeback. The full-text is available online for free.
Whither Justice? Uganda and Five Years of the International Criminal Court Michael Drexler argues that the International Criminal Court is pursuing an inappropriate engagement strategy in Uganda by ignoring the impacts of criminal prosecution and investigation on the prospects for peace to the country's decades-long conflict. It is published by the peer-reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law (IJHRL) and is available online for free.
