Code of Criminal Procedure
Javad Salehi
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The ICC ruling on jurisdiction in the Myanmar situation by relying on Article 19(3) of the Statute at the request of the Prosecutor, results which have not been known before. The ICC jurisprudence in relation to the application of Article 19 of the Statute to the situation in the Myanmar has led to conclusions ...
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The ICC ruling on jurisdiction in the Myanmar situation by relying on Article 19(3) of the Statute at the request of the Prosecutor, results which have not been known before. The ICC jurisprudence in relation to the application of Article 19 of the Statute to the situation in the Myanmar has led to conclusions that are important to examine. Therefore, reviewing the results of the ruling on jurisdiction in the Myanmar situation and identifying the exit strategy based on jurisprudence is one of the objectives and subject of this article. Research method is descriptive-analytical and relies on the Statute provisions and the ICC jurisprudence to answer research question. What are the results of the prosecutor’s request for a ruling on jurisdiction in the Myanmar situation? Research findings show that the ICC jurisprudence in the Myanmar situation not only did not prevent the loss of costs, according to the prosecutor under the concept of judicial economy, but only transferred it from the prosecutor’s office to the ICC. This view is based on two conclusions drawn from the ruling on jurisdiction in the Myanmar situation in light of the ICC jurisprudence.First, the issuance of ruling on jurisdiction did not preclude the need to consider the prosecutor’s future request for authorization of the investigation in the Myanmar situation. However, if the prosecutor had resorted to the provisions of Article 15(3) of the Statute from the outset, both the ICC jurisdiction would have been established and the investigation into the Myanmar situation would have been authorized. This is a cost that the Prosecutor has paid for by wasting time, energy and the ICC’s facilities with the theory of judicial economy in her opinion in the situation of the Myanmar. Although the Prosecutor tried to make this cost zero by resorting to the mechanism of Article 19(3) of the Statute, but the ICC jurisprudence showed that this cost is not only not zero, but it is transferred from the Prosecutor’s office to the ICC. Of course, resorting to Article 15(3) of the Statute is subject to providing the necessary documents and reasons to prove the logical basis for the need to start a preliminary investigation in the situation in the Myanmar, which is obtained for the Prosecutor after a brief review of the issue and the supporting reasons according to Article 15(1) of the Statute. But there is a doubt that the Prosecutor was forced to resort to the mechanism of Article 19(3) of the Statute. If the prosecutor was sure that the principle of objective territorial jurisdiction and the effect of the Bangladesh’s membership in the situation of the Myanmar is the basis for exercising the ICC’s jurisdiction, perhaps she would not resort the mechanism of Article 19(3) of the Statute instead of the mechanism of Articles 15(3) and 18(2) of the Statute and preliminaries.Second, recourse to the mechanism of Article 19(3) of the Statute has led to the disregard of the requirements of Article 19(2) of the Statute governing Article 18(7) of the Statute, which is related to Article 15(3) of the Statute. The competent state’s objection to the ICC jurisdiction depends on the Prosecutor’s resort to the mechanism of Articles 15(3) and 18 of the Statute, which was missing in the process of hearing and issuing the ruling on jurisdiction in the situation of the Myanmar. Therefore, the Prosecutor’s resort to Article 19(3) of the Statute without observing the formalities in Articles 15(3) and 18 of the Statute had a negative impact on the position of the state objecting to the application of complementary jurisdiction of the ICC at the stage of issuing the decision to accept jurisdiction in the situation of the Myanmar. These requirements are one of the components of a fair trial and the granting of the opportunity to challenge the ICC’s complementary jurisdiction, which was fulfilled by the prosecutor in accordance with the procedures of Articles 15(3) and 18(2) of the Statute, but did not. The right to object to the application of the complementary jurisdiction of the ICC or to prevent it by using the mechanism in Articles 18 and 19(2) of the Statute is for the state claiming criminal jurisdiction in the crimes under the ICC jurisdiction in which the Prosecutor is applying for permission to start an investigation. According to Article 15(3) of the Statute, the Prosecutor requests permission to start a preliminary investigation, and the state claiming jurisdiction immediately objects to it by resorting to Articles 18 and 19(2) of the Statute to prohibit the ICC’s complementary jurisdiction. Although this possibility is weak in the situation of the Myanmar, it should not be prejudged. Therefore, the judicial procedure thought out a solution to avoid ignoring the rights of the competent state in this regard. Therefore, the competent state’s objection to the ICC jurisdiction at the stage of issuing the order accepting the ICC’s jurisdiction was postponed to the next stage, i.e. the stage of issuing the order for the prosecutor’s preliminary investigation in the Myanmar situation.
Morteza Asghari; Hossein Mirmohammad Sadeghi
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There was serious controversy in the 1996 negotiations on the drafting of the ICC Statute on putting aggression on the list of crimes under the jurisdiction of the tribunal, which in turn stemmed from disagreements over the terms of Exercise of the ICC’s jurisdiction. The Review Conference's amendments ...
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There was serious controversy in the 1996 negotiations on the drafting of the ICC Statute on putting aggression on the list of crimes under the jurisdiction of the tribunal, which in turn stemmed from disagreements over the terms of Exercise of the ICC’s jurisdiction. The Review Conference's amendments in 2010 and Assembly state parties 2017 introduced specific rules regarding ICC’s jurisdiction for aggression that differ from the usual jurisdiction of the Court in respect of other crimes within its jurisdiction. It also lacks a clear and precise explanation for ICC’s specific jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, which has sometimes led to disagreements among jurists. Therefore, this paper will examine the ambiguous points of this jurisdiction regime in the Statute as well as the difficulty of applying ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression after July 17, 2018.
Behzad Dorraj
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On July 17, 1998, at the Rome Conference, the Statute of the Criminal Court was signed by 120 countries as an international treaty and as a result, it was decided that after the 60th day from the date of deposit of the 60th instrument of ratification, the relevant documents shall be deposited. The articles ...
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On July 17, 1998, at the Rome Conference, the Statute of the Criminal Court was signed by 120 countries as an international treaty and as a result, it was decided that after the 60th day from the date of deposit of the 60th instrument of ratification, the relevant documents shall be deposited. The articles of association become enforceable. The statute addresses the provisions necessary for the establishment of an international tribunal. Among the provisions related to jurisdiction are the admissibility of lawsuits in the Court, the general principles of criminal law, the order of proceedings, the trial, the selection of judges, etc., which have been approved as a result of intensive discussions by representatives of the signatory states. In this article, I have tried to explain the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and embark upon the concept of the ability to accept a lawsuit and determine the pillars and elements of its actions. Efforts have also been made to distinguish between the two concepts in the Rome Statute and when each of the above concepts is applied in the process of dealing with criminal matters within the jurisdiction of the Court.
Jamal Beigi; Farhad Ghahhar
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AbstractThroughout history, the phenomenon of war, as a painful reality in human life, has always been full of suffering, and therefore the international community has tried to reduce its destructive and harmful effects by enacting international humanitarian law. In the meantime, individuals, including ...
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AbstractThroughout history, the phenomenon of war, as a painful reality in human life, has always been full of suffering, and therefore the international community has tried to reduce its destructive and harmful effects by enacting international humanitarian law. In the meantime, individuals, including physicians, in some cases and in violation of their professional duties and ethical principles and by abusing this dangerous situation, in violation of international rules and the basic rules of medical professional ethics and with the help of prisoners of war under the protection of international law, unusual biological experiments during armed conflicts against these people lead to severe physical and mental injuries that, in addition to tarnishing the image of medical science, lead to one of the most heinous international crimes called "medical war crimes." The purpose of this study is to explain and analyze this conceptual approach to the phenomenon of medical war crimes and to present its examples from the perspective of international regulations and distinguish it from similar concepts to provide intellectual infrastructure. Special rules are necessary to develop the protection of victims of this range of international crimes in light of current social developments.Keywords: Medical war crime, International criminal court, Rome Statute, Geneva Convention
abbas tadayyon; zeinab bagherinejad
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Fundamental principles in any legal system that are in heart of legal structures of that system, construct infrastructure and basis of any legal system. For access to definition of legal principles, should be attended to its features, namely generalization, continuity, having social value and flexibility ...
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Fundamental principles in any legal system that are in heart of legal structures of that system, construct infrastructure and basis of any legal system. For access to definition of legal principles, should be attended to its features, namely generalization, continuity, having social value and flexibility of principle. Accordingly, fundamental principles of procedure are broad and permanent principles that originated of fundamental and constitutional law that their existence causes duration and continuity and their absence causes fragmentation of procedure life and its legitimacy. Fundamental principles in preliminary research phase, on the one hand, in framework of principles and rules governing on protection of individual rights and freedom of accused and victim and on the other hand, in framework of principles and rules related to protection of order and security of social people has ability to operation and enforce. Security and guaranty of these fundamental principles through recognition of relationship these principles with procedure measures and determination of suitable enforcement against any lack of attention or violation are Possible.
Gholamreza Gholipour; nasrin mahra
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The idea of criminalizing ecocide as an international crime, for the first time, was raised in the 1970s. However, this green idea did not become an international criminal norm because of the opposition of some powerful governments, the resistance of large business enterprises, and preponderance of economic ...
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The idea of criminalizing ecocide as an international crime, for the first time, was raised in the 1970s. However, this green idea did not become an international criminal norm because of the opposition of some powerful governments, the resistance of large business enterprises, and preponderance of economic development discourse over environmental law discourse. At the time of drafting statute of the international criminal court (1998), "war ecocide" was criminalized only as one of the manifestations of war crimes, even that was accompanied with so many conditions and limitations that it has almost been impossible to effectively prosecute and try ecocide perpetrators. This resulted in the impunity of ecocide perpetrators all around the world and in the continuation of the gradual destruction of the earth and its vital resources. In order to put an end to this environmental impunity, it is imperative that the international community criminalize ecocide crime (in peacetime) as the most severe and most serious environmental crime and put this crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
alihasan babaei; ahmad reza tohidi; Mahmoud Ghayumzade Kharangi
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Sometimes the prosecutor suspends filing or filing a case, subject to circumstances rather than prosecution, despite the occurrence of a crime. The prosecution authority in the national systems is the duty of the prosecutor. The question is, is the legal system of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
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Sometimes the prosecutor suspends filing or filing a case, subject to circumstances rather than prosecution, despite the occurrence of a crime. The prosecution authority in the national systems is the duty of the prosecutor. The question is, is the legal system of the International Criminal Court (ICC) approach to the principle of prosecution. Investigating the authority of the prosecutor in national systems and the International Criminal Court, from a comparative viewpoint, analytically-descriptive and using library resources, shows that the legal system of the Court has a systematic and well-defined approach to pursuing the necessary. Contrary to national prosecution systems, it is not the prosecutor's permission alone, but the joint task of the prosecutor and the preliminary branch. Although the prosecutor is independent in his performance, his decisions are under the supervision of the branch office. The selection and prioritization criteria for pursuing the most important crimes and the monitoring mechanism are in line with the principle of prosecution and the promise of a fair trial in the Court, and can be a suitable model for the uniformization of investigation and prosecution practices in national systems, including the Iranian criminal system Which has not been shown to be a valid requirement.
Hossein Mirmohammad Sadeghi; Ali Rahmati
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The key issues surrounding hybrid courts are the reasons and the legal bases of their establishment. The reasons for the establishment of hybrid courts are debatable on both national and international levels.From the national perspective,it can be due to reasons such as the inability or unwillingness ...
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The key issues surrounding hybrid courts are the reasons and the legal bases of their establishment. The reasons for the establishment of hybrid courts are debatable on both national and international levels.From the national perspective,it can be due to reasons such as the inability or unwillingness of the local legal system to deal effectively and fairly with international crimes,the immunity of the heads of state in national courts,the increase of differences and political tensions in the event of the intervention of the local judicial system and existence of legal barriers for international crimes have been addressed by national courts.From an international perspective, constraints on the jurisdiction of the ICC and the unwillingness of the SC to establish a dedicated international criminal tribunal are among the most important reasons for the establishment of hybrid courts.In terms of legal bases, these courts are divided into several categories.Some of them are established on the basis of a treaty between the relevant state and the UN or other international and regional institutions.Some others are freely formed by the UN and without a treaty.In some cases,the establishment of these types of courts is based on the national law of the State where crime is committed.
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The gradual development of regional criminal justice with an emphasis on African Court of Justice and Human RightsPursuit some African heads of states and claims of selective justice International Criminal Court caused deep dissatisfaction with the African Union. Union positions and some African countries ...
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The gradual development of regional criminal justice with an emphasis on African Court of Justice and Human RightsPursuit some African heads of states and claims of selective justice International Criminal Court caused deep dissatisfaction with the African Union. Union positions and some African countries in the form of withdrawal of the proposed International Criminal Court, and finally in 2014 established the African Court of Justice and Human Rights Malabo protocols were followed. African Court Protocol has not entered into force because of Malabo has not yet started.This article about the protest Africa to the administration of justice of the International Criminal Court and efforts to realize the criminal justice area and thereby jurisdiction African Court of Justice and Human Rights and challenge the immunity of heads of protocol Malabo and cooperation enshrined in the Rome Statute (1998) will be analyzed.KeywordsAfrican Union, African Court of Justice and Human Rights, regional criminal justice, International Criminal Court, Immunity
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In the realm of rights and supports for victims, many innovations in the new act of Criminal Procedure, following the new approach to criminal justice such as restorative justice, and supportive victimology have been permitted. We have already observed this approach in the Statute and the procedure of ...
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In the realm of rights and supports for victims, many innovations in the new act of Criminal Procedure, following the new approach to criminal justice such as restorative justice, and supportive victimology have been permitted. We have already observed this approach in the Statute and the procedure of the International Criminal Court, which is the result of the interaction of legal representation in most countries, especially the two great systems, i.e. common law and Roman and Germanic. A comparative study shows that Iranian legislator, despite detecting new rights for the victim, is still encountering shortcomings such as the lack of explicit identification of legal entities as the victim, ignoring the right to have a lawyer for the victim in the investigation stage, not enjoying the appropriate medical and psychological care and support, not consideration the closed and the wrapping notifications in order to keeping hidden and secret identities of victims and lack of necessary sanctions for the violation of the rights provided for them. Yet, the biggest challenge for the Court is incoherence and not formulating the active participation of victims in the prosecution and investigation stages and their lack of proper legal guidance.
shahla moazami; piman namamian
Volume 3, Issue 11 , June 2015, , Pages 113-146
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Abstract Undoubtedly, the advent of third generation international criminal tribunals called mixed tribunals is one of the most interesting phenomena in modern international criminal law in last decade of past century and early 21th one. Internationally, one of mechanisms existing to prosecute ...
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Abstract Undoubtedly, the advent of third generation international criminal tribunals called mixed tribunals is one of the most interesting phenomena in modern international criminal law in last decade of past century and early 21th one. Internationally, one of mechanisms existing to prosecute and punish crimes is to establish different international tribunals. In addition, international community recognized the need for judiciary and legal system partnership of states where crimes were being committed in order to punish international crimes effectively therefore, it established mentioned tribunals to this end. Internationally, permanent as well as ad hoc criminal authorities are an appropriate option to be used by international community to combat international crimes. Thus, international criminal court is the only permanent and competent judiciary authority for considering international crimes, but presence of such limitations as necessity of bringing situations of international crime commission before U:N security council prevent this goal achievement. However ad, hoc tribunals, including merely international and/ or mixed ones with national authorities, can be created in order to prosecute and address this category of crimes. But such actions demand making decision by security council under chapter VII of united Nations charter.
Hossein Gholami; omid Rostami Ghazani
Volume 2, Issue 4 , November 2013, , Pages 33-64
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Since the International Criminal Court has been established by the Statutewhich was ratified at Rome Conference in 1998, a new horizon was openedto the prosecution and trial of the international crimes offenders. One of thegoals to establish the ICC is fighting against the impunity; it raises somequestions ...
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Since the International Criminal Court has been established by the Statutewhich was ratified at Rome Conference in 1998, a new horizon was openedto the prosecution and trial of the international crimes offenders. One of thegoals to establish the ICC is fighting against the impunity; it raises somequestions in relation to developments in contemporary legal thoughts such asrestorative justice. This essay seeks to explain the concept of restorativejustice and its context in the trials of international crimes. It also seeks toexplain the Statute of ICC from the view of its proceedings and decisions byinspiration of “purist model” and “maximalist model “approaches about therestorative justice. The aim is to find the characters defined for restorativejustice in ICC, and explain the contexts of the restorative justice.
