⚖️Hugely important decision rendered by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in a case regarding the assassination of former Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi, killed by a commando sent by #Iran🇮🇷 in 1990 in #Switzerland🇨🇭: for the FCC...
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...the Office of the Attorney General cannot rule out the application of the crime of #genocide or of #crimesagainsthumanity, even if both provisions only entered the criminal code (well) after the 1990 assassination. Having determined that prosecuting this murder is...
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...not barred by statutes of limitation, the FCC has rendered a crucial ruling concerning the retrospective application of these provisions to events long past, and opens the possibility that many crimes committed before 2000 (in the case of genocide) or 2011...
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...(for crimes against humanity) may be prosecuted in Switzerland.
Regarding the case of the assassination of K. Rajavi, as no statutes of limitations apply, the OAG must now determine whether it was part of a larger...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazem_Raj…
Regarding the case of the assassination of K. Rajavi, as no statutes of limitations apply, the OAG must now determine whether it was part of a larger...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazem_Raj…
...plan by the Iranian regime that led to multiple assassinations of political opponents, in particular in Hamburg🇩🇪, Vienna🇦🇹, London🇬🇧, Geneva🇨🇭, Dubai🇦🇪 and Paris🇫🇷 between 1987 and 1993.
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The decision is not yet public, but here a press report:
swissinfo.ch/fre/l-enqu%C3%…
swissinfo.ch/fre/l-enqu%C3%…
Here the link to the full decision (in French): linkedin.com/posts/philip-g…
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