Hampton
22nd May 2003, 00:57
**edit** This is really just a follow up to CiaranB's post here. (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=25&topic=898)
(05-21) 02:21 PDT BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) --
The lawyer who filed a war crimes complaint against the commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq said Wednesday he will appeal a government decision to refer the case to the United States.
The government late Tuesday, acting on the advice of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, used a recently approved amendment to Belgium's universal jurisdiction law that allows a case to be sent to the country of the accused if it has a democratic and fair legal system.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...0521EDT0499.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/05/21/international0521EDT0499.DTL)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0428-06.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030514_382.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/stor...2673677,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2673677,00.html)
(Edited by Hampton at 3:08 pm on May 22, 2003)
(05-21) 02:21 PDT BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) --
The lawyer who filed a war crimes complaint against the commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq said Wednesday he will appeal a government decision to refer the case to the United States.
The government late Tuesday, acting on the advice of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, used a recently approved amendment to Belgium's universal jurisdiction law that allows a case to be sent to the country of the accused if it has a democratic and fair legal system.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...0521EDT0499.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/05/21/international0521EDT0499.DTL)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0428-06.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030514_382.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/stor...2673677,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2673677,00.html)
(Edited by Hampton at 3:08 pm on May 22, 2003)