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Parent topic
- International law [r]: The formal conduct of interactions between nation-states, both at the national level and on behalf of their citizens; generally accepted as first formalized by Hugo Grotius. [e]
- Extraordinary rendition [r]: A process in which a Requesting State may gain custody of a person held by another state, without going through a formal judicial process of international extradition, but not necessarily secretly or with no administrative hearing [e]
- Geneva Conventions [r]: For international law, the principal group of treaties addressing humanitarian aspects of war [e]
- Hostis humani generis [r]: A legal principle that certain acts, such as piracy, slavery and genocide, puts one outside the norms of civilization and makes one an "enemy of all mankind", subject to early forms of universal jurisdiction or summary action [e]
- Universal jurisdiction [r]: A concept in international law that allows a nation to prosecute an individual charged with offenses against humanity, with no requirement that the defendant or victim be a national of the Requesting State or indeed, that there are any links to the Requesting State and the defendant [e]
Subtopics
- Extrajudicial detention, Argentina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Burma [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Bolivia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Chile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, China [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Egypt [r]: General policies of modern Egypt for extrajudicial detention either by the Egyptian authorities directly, or where Egypt receives prisoners from third countries [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, France [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Germany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Iran [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Israel [r]: Extrajudicial detention by the State of Israel, including detention of individuals within its borders and captured either in warfare or by special operations; policies vary over time and Government [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, Japan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Morocco [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Paraguay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Soviet Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Syria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, U.K. [r]: Imprisonment of individuals by the modern government of the United Kingdom, under authority of other than the regular courts; detention may be under the orders of legally constituted but nonjudicial military tribunals or security officials [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.K., Northern Ireland [r]: Formal preventive detention authority by the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland, goes back to 1922 under civil authority; military forces joined operations in 1971 [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S. [r]: Situations where the Executive Branch of the United States government has detained individuals without the authority of the judicial branch of government; there have been many cases going back to through the early history of the nation, sometimes during overt war, and, perhaps better known at present, directed against non-national threats. [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., Japanese internment [r]: United States extrajudicial detention, as potential World War II security threats, of all citizens and aliens of Japanese ancestry residing in the Pacific coastal defense zone [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policies and practices relevant to detention in intelligence and military facilities, the latter when no prisoner of war status was granted [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, Uruguay [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extrajudicial detention, Vietnam [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation Condor [r]: A secret security operation among the military governments of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, beginning in 1975 and ending with democratization in the 1980s and 1990s; descriptions range from counterintelligence and counterterrorism to state terror [e]
Related topics
- International extradition [r]: The process by which one country asks the overt judicial system of another country to surrender, to the first country, a person resident in the second, to face criminal proceedings in the first country [e]
- International Criminal Court [r]: A permanent tribunal, established by treaty among over 120 nations but not part of the United Nations, for trying individuals for crimes against humanity; a number of major countries do not accept its authority [e]
- International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [r]: Conducted by the four major Allied powers in Europe, this proceeding tried the designated Major War Criminals of Nazi Germany, as well as determining whether certain Nazi organizations were to be considered as criminal conspiracies to which membership was a crime [e]
- International Military Tribunal (Tokyo) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Prisoner of war [r]: An individual who has been captured by an enemy in an area of war, and meets various conditions, defined principally by the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, which qualify the person as a lawful combatant [e]
