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ICTY rejects Karadzic challenge to legitimacy of court

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday rejected a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic challenging the legitimacy of the court. Karadzic claimed that the UN Security Council overstepped its powers when it created the court in 1993. The tribunal summarily rejected this argument:Whether the UNSC legally established the Tribunal is an issue that was unambiguously settled in 1995 in the Tadic case, when the Appeals Chamber held read more

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