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12 March 2010
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Testing British Judiciary Independance
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In December last year, Westminster Magistrates' Court issued an arrest warrant for Israel's former Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, under Britain's universal jurisdiction laws. It was granted in the wake of evidence found by the United Nations fact-finding mission on the conflict in Gaza which concluded that both Israeli forces and Palestinians had committed acts that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.

The mission also concluded that Israeli military planners followed a doctrine aimed deliberately at causing massive damage, destruction and suffering to civilian populations and in addition, that grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention in respect of wilful killings by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) gave rise to individual criminal responsibility.

Click here to read complete article by Zulaikha Abdullah, MEMO, 5th February 2010


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