Africa s Immunity Controversy

In other words, the immunity is jurisdictional immunity from national courts.

The impunity that is characteristic of these heinous crimes must stop.

Amnesty laws in Argentina at the time shielded him from prosecution.

The first member of a cartel should receive complete immunity from prosecution and punishment.

I came to Jordan because I was scared of arrest and in search for safety.

This guaranteed legal immunity for the leaders who carried out the invasion of Iraq.

It originates from medicine and early studies on the causes of immunity to disease.

Conditions of detention continued to be appalling.

The Jurisdictional Immunities Convention applies to the immunity of a State and its property from the jurisdiction of the courts of another State.

But Iran is playing for time and hoping to reach a zone of immunity.

Instead, they often seek immunity by running for public office.

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The website ArabCartoon has also condemned the arrest.

The complainant himself made no attempt to resist arrest.

According to the news, the army killed these clerics after two hours of arrest and investigation.

A student is detained by military police in São Paulo.

The wise Mr. Kutesa has revolutionized international law with his introduction of the concept of so called provisional immunity.

However, the debate will not be on the substance of the claim but only on the validity of the assertion of immunity.

Third, the precise scope of article 10, paragraph 1, as it related to proceedings arising out of commercial activities, posed similar difficulties.

Impunity, in turn, erodes the credibility of the country s institutions, including public hospitals and clinics.

The earliest known reference to immunity was during the plague of Athens in 430 BC.

The warrant was no leap forward.

Indeed, it is likely to prolong wicked regimes.

It will be the duty of States parties and the international community to execute the arrest warrants issued by the ICC.

We regret the fact that the text we have adopted contains a provision of immunity from jurisdiction, which runs counter to the spirit of the Rome Statute.

We do not even know whether he is imprisoned or not..

There is a long standing presumption of sovereign immunity states can be sued only under limited circumstances.

In fact, one has to search the books of diplomatic history to find evidence of non performance of diplomatic conventions , and in each instance the challenge to diplomatic decorum came from a source that can be credibly dismissed as barbarian.

Nor is there any prospect that someone else will intervene in Sudan to make an arrest.

ESMA was the largest detention center of its kind during the Dirty War.

The implicit immunity from prosecution these groups received in exchange for their demobilization has done little to help.

He is back home in Jeddah after 137 days in custody.

(b) About recent cases of arbitrary arrest and detention and of summary trials in some areas of the country

With the war s outbreak, Americans of Japanese origin were expropriated and herded into concentration camps.

Again, this is correct, but it by no means proves that he is no longer under house arrest.

Many of its candidates seek office not to work for Ukraine s betterment, but to gain parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

Ukraine also declared that the provisions of article 26, paragraph 3, shall not be applied to the organizer or leader of a criminal group in respect of granting immunity from criminal prosecution.

In article 5, the principle of State immunity from the jurisdiction of the courts of another State was reaffirmed, as was the principle of jurisdictional sovereignty.

According to his wife, Manal, police used violent force when the arrest took place

In some cases, they were detained for raising their voices against corrupt government officials.

Attention is drawn to the fact that most arrests took place outside the judicial system.

Lastly, she was concerned about the reference to incarceration regimes.

Foreign experts should have delved more deeply into the reasons for the arrest.

Saffana Baqle and Assem Hamsho, who were with her at the time of the arrest, are still missing.