Afghan assembly grants immunity for war crimes
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Afghanistan's parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human rights groups for war crimes trials.
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WASHINGTON A just-completed army criminal investigation has implicated 28 active-duty and reserve personnel in the homicides of two Afghan men detained at the US air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, in December 2002, and describes potential offenses ranging
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A Bangladesh court on Thursday acquitted  former military ruler Hossain Mohammad Ershad of graft charges  in an oil and defense deal, easing the way for his return to  the political mainstream ahead of elections next year.
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The upper house of the Afghan parliament approves a controversial bill giving amnesty to war criminals.
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The US says many of the prisoners it is holding in Afghanistan will stand trial under Afghan law.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into vote counting centers across Afghanistan on Monday, while an independent panel will probe allegations the landmark election was marred by fraud.    Organizers of the vote are hoping the establishment of the panel - made up of about three foreign election experts - will end an opposition boycott that could seriously undermine the winner's ability to rule this war-ravaged nation...
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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A divided Security Council approved a resolution establishing an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister.
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Afghanistan's human rights commission says those responsible for war crimes must be brought to justice.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has criticized Afghanistan's parliament for granting immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of war.
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Afghanistan has made sufficient steps to improve its economy to qualify for debt relief.
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Afghanistan's parliament has cleared the way for a law giving amnesty to groups involved in war crimes during the country's nearly three decades of bloody conflict, prompting angry reaction Sunday.
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A group of lawmakers on Monday denounced a nonbinding resolution passed by Afghanistan's lower house of parliament calling for amnesty for warlords and other Afghans accused of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting.
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Foreign diplomats to London have been accused of criminal offences including child abuse and sexual assault but escaped prosecution because of immunity, several British Sunday newspapers.
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Thousands turn out in the Afghan capital Kabul to voice support for a controversial proposed war crimes amnesty.
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The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, a spokesman said.
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The Cambodian parliament yesterday ratified an agreement with the United Nations to put the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity.