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Biannual update on national implementation of international humanitarian law related treaties July – December 2012

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2014

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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 95 , Issue 890: Violence against health care Part II: The way forward , June 2013 , pp. 429 - 448
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This selection of national legislation and case law has been prepared by Jana Panakova, Legal Attachée of the ICRC Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law.

References

1 To view the full list of IHL-related treaties, please visit the ICRC Treaty Database: http://www.icrc.org/ihl.

2 For the text of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Model Law, please visit: http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/model_law_gc-ap-i-ii-iii.pdf

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid.

6 See Press Release of the District Court of ITÄ- UUSIMAA, 11 June 2010, ‘Judgement in a criminal case of genocide, Prosecutor v. Francois Bazaramba (R 09/404)’, available at: http://www.asser.nl/upload/documents/DomCLIC/Docs/NLP/Finland/Bazaramba_Press_Release_EN.pdf.

7 The other arguments of the Defence included violation of the principle of non-retroactivity of criminal law; non-existence of a required strict link between the accused and Switzerland, as well as an absence of a refusal of an extradition request by the State concerned (i.e. Algeria). See Case A. v. Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, Federal Criminal Court, 25 July 2012, ‘Presentation of Facts’, para. G, available at: http://www.trial-ch.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/affaires/algeria/BB.2011.140.pdf.

8 Ibid., para 5.4.2.

9 See unofficial translation from French provided by the Swiss non-governmental association TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), para 5.4.3, available at: http://www.asser.nl/upload/documents/20130221T040104-Nezzar_Judgm_Eng_translation%2025-07-2012.pdf.

10 See Ndiku Mutua et al. v. the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Case No. [2012] EWHC 2678 (QB), 5 October 2012, para. 21, available at: http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/mutua-fco-judgment-05102012.pdf.

11 See Case Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v. Yunus Rahmutullah, the Supreme Court, 31 October 2012, para. 30, available at: http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2012_0142_Judgment.pdf.

12 Ibid., para. 32.

13 Ibid., para. 34.

14 Ibid., para. 38.

15 Ibid., para. 53.

16 See Case Salim Ahmed Hamdan v. United States of America on Petition for Review from the United States Court of Military Commissions Review, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 16 October 2012, pp. 5 and 18, available at: http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hamdan-D.C.-Circuit.pdf.

17 Ibid., p. 22.

18 Ibid., p. 28.