Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal News Blogs -> JURIST - The Paper Chase

Legal News

: JURIST - The Paper Chase

Europe officials urge new international court for communist crimes

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

[JURIST] An international court to prosecute crimes against humanity committed by communist regimes should be created by the European Union (EU), the participants of the Prague Crimes of the Communist Regime Conference said in a joint statement Friday. The participants in the conference, organized by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, said that the new court should be established because such crimes, which are not subject to a statute of limitations under international law, fal read more

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).