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ECCC: 002: No Armed Conflict Nexus Requirement from the Definition of Crimes Against Humanity

2010-10-26, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Trial Chamber granted the Co-Prosecutors’ motion to exclude armed conflict nexus requirement from the definition of crimes against humanity. This decision effectively reversed the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision holding that it was not clear whether a nexus to armed conflict was part of the customary international law definition of crimes against humanity [...]
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ECCC: 002: Trial Chamber Rejects JCEIII

2011-09-12, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After reviewing the WWII jurisprudence cited by the ICTY and the STL in support of JCE III, the ECCC Trial Chamber found that the inference drawn by those tribunals that post-WWII convictions were based on JCE III “was not the only possible one based on the surviving record.” As a result, the [...]
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ECCC: Ieng: Request for Annulment of All Investigations Denied

2010-06-25, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) granted the defence’s appeal of the Co-Investigative Judges’ (CIJ) order rejecting the defence’s request for annulment of all investigations. However, the PTC dismissed the request for annulment, after reconsidering it on its merits. Procedural History On December 7, 2009, the defence filed a request to annul all investigations [...]
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