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U.S. intelligence source says the Sinai air disaster did not result from missile strike.
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Fresh murder charge comes after Mikhail Khodorkovsky allegedly called for violent overthrow of authorities under President Putin.
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Suspicious weapons, explosives turned out to be World War II memorabilia.
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Elected and appointed officials could be barred from public service for 10 years or more.
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But recreational growers and sellers in the small Balkan nation still face long prison terms if caught.
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Every questioning of a witness by a prosecutor is of a legal and formal nature. Its aim is to determine “what really happened”. A historian, if interested not only in reconstruction of the course of events, strives to get to know the world of the witness he or she is interviewing. These aims determine the methods, but do not exclude learning from each other’s experience, as well as results of investigations, inquiries and research. The same person can be the subject of interest for a narrative; a prosecutor and a historian can complement each other in their findings. This article represents a contribution to the discussion on the differences in methodology in the work of historians and prosecutors, as well as the importance of interviews with witnesses for the research on contemporary history.
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In the last 50 years more than 250 conflicts broke worldwide out and killed more than 86 million civilians, mostly women and children. Over 170 million people have been deprived of their dignity, rights and possessions. The majority of the victims were forgotten, and only a few war criminals were tried. The regulations existing in international law, which are prohibiting war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, protection of cultural heritage and, most recently aggression are not effective and not respected. To this day an effective system of enforcing those rights and bringing the individuals responsible for it to justice does not exist.
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At least 45 injured as protestors attack riot police.
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Rapid technological development has provided us with new efficient tools that we should not hesitate to use. In the last two decades we have seen technical revolution around us. Nevertheless, criminal procedure does not follow that change – saving evidence law. The article is focused on application of private recordings in Polish criminal procedure, with particular emphasis on its value as an evidence. The paper analyses practical problems related to the issue. The author presents different definitions of private evidence and private recording. The findings and conclusions represented in the author’s analysis show that the issue of private recording is very vital and has to be examined profoundly. Changes, that are shown in the article were introduced on 1st of July 2015, had been estimated as a huge step in “releasing” private evidence. The author pays attention to potential difficulties in interpretation of the new regulations.
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Since its inception the communist forces’ system of military justice had constituted a part of the system of subordinating entire front-line units to the communist rule, and the advancing Sovietisation of the Polish People’s Army. The Soviet communists had their own experience in the fields of enforcing obedience and wide-scale infiltration, including that of the armed forces. Red Army, SMERSH and NKVD officers detached to the PPA and the security apparatus involved, introduced Soviet-inspired police terror and disciplinary tactics in the army, temporarily making use of pre-war symbolism and cynically referring to the tradition of the Second Polish Republic. The judicial practice of courts-martial was aimed at preparing the Polish army and war-weary population to accept the communist ideology, and for clearing the military of those discontented with post-Yalta reality.
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Ledgers found in Kyiv list undisclosed cash payments to the chairman of Trump’s presidential campaign.
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UN envoy Vitaly Churkin blames breakdown of ceasefire on Syrian rebels, dismisses reports of mass killings in eastern Aleppo as faked.
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UN says Azimjan Askarov, jailed for life in 2010 for stirring up ethnic hatred left 450 people dead, was tortured and denied a fair trial.
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Move comes days after Levada Center reported falling support for ruling party and less than two weeks before nationwide elections.
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European Court of Auditors has disclosed that the two countries became members despite its recommendation to wait.
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Rape and other forms of sexual violence have been inseparably linked with the ongoing military conflicts. Despite the condemnation of war rape in modern times, its penalization arrived extraordinarily slowly. The last twenty years brought about a huge progress in the approach to the penalization of international crimes of sexual nature, which was developed in a hitherto unprecedented range in the jurisprudence of the international criminal tribunals, especially in Africa. The aim of this article is to present the cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) which had a significant influence on the penalization of war crimes of sexual nature in the Statute of the International Criminal Court and two trials of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), concerning the penalization of forced marriage. It shows how the African juridical traditions contributed to the problem of the penalization of sexual war crimes.
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The legal mechanism that provided for the protection of freedom of conscience and religion were envisaged by the first contemporary Albanian state. The first law for religious statutes of Albanian state was the legal statute of religious communities. According to this law, the freedom of conscience and faith was guaranteed. In order to guarantee the freedom of religion, despite constitutional provisions and Criminal Code, other mechanisms are ratified by law by the Albanian parliament including also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Declaration on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, and the Convention for the protection of children.This paper aims to give a general overview of all the legal mechanisms in Albania that guaranteed freedom of faith during different periods and all the current mechanisms that still do guarantee it and are in force, including a short description of the punishments provided by criminal law in cases of criminal offenses against the freedom of religion. This general overview is aiming to show the importance of freedom of religion and faith, its development, as it is considered as interdependent and associated with other human rights.
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The article analyzes the regularities in making optimal tactical decisions by an investigator when investigating crime. The work substantiates conclusions and propositions about the essence of an investigator’s optimal tactical decision, characterizes the decision making process, discloses the necessary conditions, methods and phases, and formulates the concept of a backup tactical decision of an investigator.
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Starting from the general accepted view that the constitutional judiciary is a body of protection of Constitution, is justified to wonder, who is this body that in terms of legal action to a greater extent of constitutional court acts as a larger social justification. He is the controller of acts adopted by legislative and executive authorities as well as the ordinary courts, and thus was established as an institution of special social significance. When we talk about the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, they are differently defined, which means that we have differentiated procedures, and therefore specific decisions depending on the type of competence and nature of disputes. The differentiation of these responsibilities is based on the extent to which the constitutional courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in addition to traditional tasks relating to the protection of constitutionality, realize more direct connection with the legislative, executive and judicial authority and the citizens.
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