Word: absentia
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...tribunal -- if it ever gets started -- will be breaking new ground in the history of war-crime prosecutions. Some Nuremberg precedents have been rejected: no defendants will be tried in absentia; nobody will be hanged. All the tribunal can do, says Theo Van Boven, the court's registrar, "is rule that a case exists and issue an international arrest warrant. That would severely limit the movement of such people. They would become pariahs...
...Dhabi court convicted 12 former top executives of the collapsed Bank of Credit & Commerce International on criminal charges of fraud and mismanagement in one of the world's largest financial scandals. The three key defendants, though, were convicted in absentia: Agha Hassan Abedi, the B.C.C.I. founder; Mohamed Saleh Naqvi, the empire's former chief executive; and Ziauddin Ali Akbar, the bank's former treasurer. The court also ordered the group of 12 to pay $9.13 billion in restitution to Abu Dhabi's government and ruling family, which held a 77.4% stake in B.C.C.I...
...guests. One of the "friends" was Nasser Ghasmi Nejad, whose real purpose was apparently to rendezvous with Azadi and shepherd him back to Tehran. Shoorideh and Nejad thus joined the list of six alleged co-conspirators, including Azadi, Boyerahmadi, Sheikhattar and Edipsoy, who are to be tried in absentia at the same time as Vakili, Hendi and Sarhadi...
...just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older sister to power for the second time in less than five years...
...first international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials following World War II opened in the Hague, but the 11-judge panel investigating atrocities in the former Yugoslavia has none of the alleged perpetrators in custody and is not empowered to try defendants in absentia...