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Antiwar.com Original Support for the rule of international law, and for the institutions which uphold it, is one of the principles of this blog. I have therefore always been extremely keen to defend and support the International Criminal Court, despite widespread criticism that it is simply a tool for use against leaders in the developing world and other opponents of the neo-con world order. I maintained that the standard of justice and investigation in the cases it did consider was generally good, and the need was to widen its ambit. Unfortunately, the decision of the ICC to close down its investigation into War Crimes committed by ....
The case of Phil Shiner The government often cites the case of Phil Shiner, the British lawyer who successfully exposed the role of British soldiers in the torture and murder of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi man who died in British custody in Basra in 2003. Shiner was struck off by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2017 after being found guilty of professional misconduct charges including paying an Iraqi middleman to find claimants to make allegations against British soldiers. Shiner had submitted thousands of claims against the British army so this was the opportunity the government - having previously denounced law firms involved in litigation ....
UK nationals committed abuses in Iraq after 2003 on a significant scale. The International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) Final Report on the UK and Iraq on December 9 is the latest official report to find that members of UK armed forces subjected Iraqi detainees to abuse, and concludes there is a reasonable basis to believe these were war crimes. But the prosecutor’s decision to close her examination of the UK without proceeding to an investigation on the basis that the UK is willing to genuinely investigate and prosecute these war crimes defies belief. The Prosecutor Office’s report amounts to one of the clearest findings by any official body of the extent of UK abuses in Iraq. ....
The ICC refuses to prosecute UK war crimes in Iraq despite “reasonable” evidence The International Criminal Court (ICC) has abandoned its inquiry into war crimes committed by British troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2008. The decision is a green light to the major powers to ignore international criminal and humanitarian law when pursuing their imperialist interests throughout the world. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the decisions even as she admitted there was a “reasonable basis to believe” that British armed forces may have carried out atrocities, including the willful killing of detainees held in custody in Iraq between 2003 and 2008. Fatou Bensouda (credit: Max Koot Studio - Own work) ....