Nuremberg Judgments in Baghdad

Other members received less severe verdicts by the court.

The verdicts sent an unmistakable message, one with serious consequences for Egypt s political transition.

Sentences for non Han Chinese are typically longer than those imposed on Han Chinese.

Moreover, almost everyone arrested for endangering state security is convicted.

It is not susceptible to the charge of victor's justice, because the entire world is represented by its judgments.

(vi) The death sentences and summary executions by the Congolese Rally for Democracy Goma

If the public were unaware of the first two incidents, the results would not be reversed.

Ukrainian officials, like President Petro Poroshenko and UN Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, were quick to condemn the verdicts.

According to the official representative, the sentences were given by special tribunals in Teheran that considered 35 cases of this kind.

RuNet Echo rounds up the Internet's reactions to the trial, the sentences, and their implications for access to justice in Russia.

In the one or two cases of acquittal, another charge is filed and a conviction obtained.

On the pictures, Kuznetsov is depicted as a heavy drinker and a person that can hardly be called a source of a reasonable judgement.

Online reactions from Ukrainian and Russian users were mostly those of shock and anger, although not surprise.

At home, activists, journalists and political figures who did end up behind bars would never be sentenced based on their activism or opposition to the government.

Criminal sentences there are handed down in English, not in the language spoken by the majority of the population, which is Spanish, another fact which accentuates the problem even further.

The international community agreed that the latest verdict and mass death sentences are not consistent with Egypt's obligations under international law.

Lawyers for Mubarak and al Adly will appeal their life sentences, and many Egyptians believe that they will receive lighter sentences.

Until Sharia can handle adultery fairly, no penalties should be imposed.

In such cases, there is a duty to guarantee that all sentences are passed by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

Twenty seven of the Institute's staff members also received jail sentences, and the Institute is now practically destroyed. Any dictator, from Saddam Hussein to Robert Mugabe, could take pride in this abuse of power.

The verdicts are likely to boost support in the runoff for Morsi, who split the Islamist vote with two other candidates in the election s first round.

Twenty seven of the Institute's staff members also received jail sentences, and the Institute is now practically destroyed.

Another problem is that sentences are issued not only for blood crimes, but also for crimes such as drug trafficking (Indonesia and Singapore).

The court also reduced the sentences of Abdullah al Fakharany, Samhi Mustafa, and Mohamed al Adly all arrested in the same incident, from 25 years to five years.

Brought into the country by book smugglers despite the threat of stiff prison sentences, they helped fuel a growing nationalist sentiment that finally led to the lifting of the ban in 1904.

In addition to international opposition, some Russian lawmakers have criticized the law as being overly broad, allowing courts to convict individuals for political rather than legal reasons.

Ahwazi Arabs activists are commonly accused of secession and being threats to national security, a charge that usually carries the death penalty or a very harsh prison sentence.

These latest verdicts are the first death sentences meted out by Chinese courts to those who took part in protests that swept Lhasa and other Tibetan cities in the spring of 2008.

Non custodial sentences, where appropriate, provide a win win solution to Cambodia s prison overcrowding more effective responses to petty criminal offending and a lower prison population.

Many within Hong Kong's pro democracy civic sector see the ruling as a politically motivated move that pushes the city towards a judicial culture that errs on the side of power over rights.

This spring marks the third anniversary of the wave of repression in which Fidel Castro s regime arrested and handed down long sentences to 75 leading Cuban dissidents.

The death sentences and torturing that were then imposed on almost entire nations and millions of people are, it now appears, to be silently accepted and noisily celebrated on May 9 in Moscow.

For Santos, reconciling peace and justice in a complicated domestic political context may require alternative formulas, such as reduced sentences, community penalties, conditional verdicts, or asylum in third countries.

In democracies, courts are heard, and obeyed, even if their judgements affect the original parliamentary power of the purse, as in recent German cases concerning the pension entitlements of particular groups.

Quoting an unnamed source from the Saudi Ministry of Justice, pro government Arabic daily Al Riyadh reported that anyone who criticised the Saudi judiciary and its sentences would be sued. The report added

Though the activists were originally convicted and sentenced to community service and suspended jail time, the Department of Justice later filed a re sentencing appeal, arguing that the original sentences for the activists were too light .

Until Sharia can handle adultery fairly, no penalties should be imposed.

By the time most learned about the order and the penalty, the two weeks were gone and the army had started to execute those found still to be in possession of the grain.

(j) To comply with its obligations under article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights not to impose the sentence of death for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age

Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an avalanche of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.

Brankovikj has had his property nationalized twice by the state over the last 65 years, and although he won all the court cases regarding this matter to date, Macedonian state institutions have failed to implement the verdicts and return his property.

Bubeyev's verdict is the latest in a string of cases in Russia where Internet users have been charged under anti extremist legislation and given real prison terms or community service for posting or reposting content on social media.

Nearly a half century later, the world embarked on a better course with the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for ex Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993. It is not susceptible to the charge of victor's justice, because the entire world is represented by its judgments.

Rajab noted NABEELRAJAB The soldiers in the court have done a disgusting thing which is kissing each other and congratulating each other in the court in front of the detainees' families after the imprisonment sentences were made against the activists.