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Ferre
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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject: Iraq war was illegal, British court told |
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Iraq war was illegal, British court told
Tue Feb 15,10:18 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - British opponents of the Iraq war
arrested for breaking into military bases were denied justice because the
conflict itself was illegal, a court case with potentially far-reaching
implications was told.
A group of protestors convicted of aggravated trespass should not have
been found guilty because they were simply trying to prevent an illegal
war, their lawyer told the High Court in London.
The case is a potentially sensitive one for the government of Prime
Minister Tony Blair, which always insisted the March
2003 war was justified under international law but has refused to release
the legal arguments behind this.
Detailed debate about the legality of the US-led, British-backed conflict
could be particularly embarrassing given that a general election is widely
expected in early May.
In a case expected the last two days, the High Court was hearing three
separate challenges by protesters who broke into three of military sites
in the run-up to the war, a tank depot and two air bases.
Lawyer Maurice Mendelson, representing 14 members of environmental group
Greenpeace who broke into a tank base in Southampton, southern England, in
February 2003, said their convictions were flawed.
The trial judges had erred by ruling that the protesters' defence they
were preventing a war crime under the International Criminal Courts Act
(ICCA) was "non-justiciable" as it related to defence and foreign policy,
Mendelson said.
"It is crystal clear that crimes under the ICCA are justiciable in the
English courts, whether or not those crimes are committed pursuant to
defence or foreign policy," he said.
It was up to prosecutors to actively prove that the military personnel at
the bases targeted were not assisting with an illegal war, he said.
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Fyrefly1
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Interesting...they probably won't get away with it but it would be a wonderful precedent...
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Rev. Chazman
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Lets hope for something, anything possitive soon.
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