Attorney General Alberto Nisman
The UN Security Council is expected to vote next week on a resolution to haul Syria before the International Criminal Court, The resolution drafted by France aims “to send a message that there is accountability for the crimes committed in Syria,” one diplomat said.
“There is a clear need to demonstrate that the international community is interested in accountability” for the more than three years of violence visited by the Damascus government upon the Syrian people, the diplomat said.
Western powers have decried mounting atrocities said to include systematic torture, chemical attacks and the use of “barrel bombs” packed with explosives.
The conflict in Syria so far has killed 150,000 people and displaced nearly half the population, as the government employs what one diplomat called “starvation and siege tactics” against its people.
Next week’s Security Council vote also comes amid growing suspicions that Syria has been using chemical weapons on its own people.
Human Rights Watch said in a report earlier this week it had gathered evidence showing the Damascus government put chlorine canisters inside the barrel bombs it dropped from helicopters on opposition-held towns in northern Syria.
The draft resolution expresses the council’s “strong condemnation of the widespread violations of human rights and inAn Argentine court Thursday declared unconstitutional an agreement with Iran to probe the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, with a final decision left to the Supreme Court.
The government vowed to appeal. It holds that Tehran was behind the attack on the Argentine Jewish Charities Federation, or AMIA, that left 85 people dead and 300 others injured two decades ago.
“The ultimate interpreter of the constitution will be the Supreme Court,” said Justice Minister Julio Alak.
The attorney general in the case, Alberto Nisman, had said the agreement constituted an “undue interference of the executive branch in the exclusive sphere of the judiciary.”
Argentina charges that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement, carried out the attack under orders from Iran, which Tehran denies.
Since 2006, Argentine courts have demanded the extradition of eight Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former defense minister Ahmad Vahidi and Mohsen Rabbani, Iran’s former cultural attache in Buenos Aires.
The accord between the two countries is strongly rejected by organizations representing the 300,000 members of Argentina’s Jewish community, the largest in Latin America.
Another court decision ordered that extradition requests for the defendants be reiterated and made a demand for Interpol to reactivate memos of arrest for the Iranian former officials.
“There is a clear need to demonstrate that the international community is interested in accountability” for the more than three years of violence visited by the Damascus government upon the Syrian people, the diplomat said.
Western powers have decried mounting atrocities said to include systematic torture, chemical attacks and the use of “barrel bombs” packed with explosives.
The conflict in Syria so far has killed 150,000 people and displaced nearly half the population, as the government employs what one diplomat called “starvation and siege tactics” against its people.
Next week’s Security Council vote also comes amid growing suspicions that Syria has been using chemical weapons on its own people.
Human Rights Watch said in a report earlier this week it had gathered evidence showing the Damascus government put chlorine canisters inside the barrel bombs it dropped from helicopters on opposition-held towns in northern Syria.
The draft resolution expresses the council’s “strong condemnation of the widespread violations of human rights and inAn Argentine court Thursday declared unconstitutional an agreement with Iran to probe the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, with a final decision left to the Supreme Court.
The government vowed to appeal. It holds that Tehran was behind the attack on the Argentine Jewish Charities Federation, or AMIA, that left 85 people dead and 300 others injured two decades ago.
“The ultimate interpreter of the constitution will be the Supreme Court,” said Justice Minister Julio Alak.
The attorney general in the case, Alberto Nisman, had said the agreement constituted an “undue interference of the executive branch in the exclusive sphere of the judiciary.”
Argentina charges that Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement, carried out the attack under orders from Iran, which Tehran denies.
Since 2006, Argentine courts have demanded the extradition of eight Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former defense minister Ahmad Vahidi and Mohsen Rabbani, Iran’s former cultural attache in Buenos Aires.
The accord between the two countries is strongly rejected by organizations representing the 300,000 members of Argentina’s Jewish community, the largest in Latin America.
Another court decision ordered that extradition requests for the defendants be reiterated and made a demand for Interpol to reactivate memos of arrest for the Iranian former officials.
ernational humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities and pro-government militias.”
It also assails “human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law by non-state armed groups,” in Syria.
It also assails “human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law by non-state armed groups,” in Syria.
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