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Islamic Parallel Justice
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In many German cities, Muslim arbiters, or "peace judges," are settling criminal cases before law enforcement can bring the cases to court. That is undermining Germany's rule of law, according to a new book published by Econ Verlag.

German law expert and former public TV investigative journalist Joachim Wagner presented a new book on Monday in which he speaks of a parallel justice system among the Muslim minority that undermines the rule of law in Germany.

The 236-page book, titled "Judges Without Law: Islamic Parallel Justice Endangers Our Rule of Law," looks into the problems the German judiciary faces when investigating crimes committed within Muslim communities in Germany.


http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15353693,00.html
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US Fails to Bring Osama bin Laden to Justice
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Shortly after taking office oin January 2005, US President Barack Obama ordered CIA director Leon Panetta to make the killing or capture of Osama bin Laden, leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, the top priority of the US war against Al-Qaeda.

Last week, President Obama authorised an operation to "get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice," the President said in a speech on 1 May 2011. A small team of Americans carried out the operation, and after a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden.

Despite President Obama's assertion that "justice has been done," the operation failed to capture bin Laden and bring him to a court of law. Bin Laden was thus never tried or found guilty of the crimes he was accused of and took responsibility for.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead

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International Effort to Criminalize War

At the end of August 2010, prosecutors from international tribunals met in Jamestown, NY, for the 2010 International Humanitarian Law Dialogs. The conference debated the issue of defining the crime of aggression. If the International Criminal Court is given jurisdiction to prosecute it, it would essentially make all acts of aggressive war illegal.

Filed under: Human Rights ICC Justice War Crimes
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