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UK PM seeks to limit war crimes arrest warrants for international leaders

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

[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday proposed tighter restrictions on the use of politically motivated arrest warrants for foreign leaders accused of war crimes. Brown said that he would seek to make tougher "the evidential basis on which arrest warrants can be allowed" and to restrict the right to prosecute universal jurisdiction crimes to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Writing about the UK's policy of universal jurisdiction, Brown explained that he is seeking to introduce read more

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 04, 2010 (boomark / email).