Coalition for the International Criminal Court 

 
After a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami was sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s Supreme Court, Coalition member No Peace Without Justice condemned the sentence and called for Bangladesh to respect due process rights in the enforcement of international crimes… http://bit.ly/1evB786

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I have to use all legal means to do so. That also means exposing the process in the public domain

https://twitter.com/tobycadman/status/387685546635821056

why bother with what? Why continue to defend my clients? To ensure that justice is served.

I think my position is quite clear. The whole process is a farce and has nothing to do with justice.

https://twitter.com/tobycadman/status/387678642811457536

Financial Times: Flawed war crimes trials push Bangladesh to the edge

I’m hired as a lawyer, but to suggest DB and AF are paid is simply ignorant

https://twitter.com/tobycadman/status/385774840596430848

you can draw whatever conclusions you like it really makes little difference to me – results of review are clear.

https://twitter.com/tobycadman/status/385469573245718528

Before you quote me, please quote what I said „I am not in a position to confirm nor deny anything at this stage“

Having now reviewed all the material, it is quite clearly the same person.

https://twitter.com/tobycadman/status/385146462373691393

Bangladesh MP sentenced to death for war crimes

I’m on Monocle 24 radio (London) discussing flawed int’l crimes tribunal in that sentenced MP Chowdhury to death for war crimes.

Weiterer Kriegsverbrecher in Bangladesch zum Tode verurteilt http://news.orf.at/stories/2200620

„Party of Two“ – The Prime Ministers of Bangladesh and India consider the war crimes trials to meet…

I guess ‚lobbying‘ is not such a dirty word in Bangladesh after all. FARA WATCH: BGR INKS BANGLADESH: BGR Public…

Ambassador Rapp is being criticised by members of the International Crimes Strategy Forum, a pro-Government lobby … group supporting the war crimes trials, for advancing a contradictory position in terms of the Iraqi High Tribunal as compared to the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal.

BHRC expresses concern over death sentence in Dhaka

US Court Summons Indian PM

Taylor Appeal Rejected

Bangladesh Information MInister, not really known for his moderate approach to politics, claims that Jamaat’s hartal against the Supreme Court judgment in the Molla case is illegal. Not really sure about that one. Whilst the calling of a hartal may be foreign to me it seems to be a common phenomena in Bangladesh. Is the Minister saying it’s unlawful because it concerns a judgment of the Supreme Court and questioning that is in fact unlawful. Very shaky ground!

The plot thickens…..

The issue as to whether the video is authentic is deserving of a fully independent inquiry

 

Toby Cadman Barrister-at-Law

This evening I was asked to respond to the following questions by a journalist at BDNews24.com concerning the publication of the video of the Prosecution Witness ‚Nannu“

BDNews24 ran the story under the headline „Cadman Unsure About Witness Nannu“

In order to clear any doubt. Here is what I informed the journalist:

I have been made aware that several videos have now been uploaded on YouTube. I understand that the video that I have seen was uploaded sometime after I gave the interview to the Daily Telegraph. I also understand, following the Dhaka Tribune article that a further video in which the witness in question denies being the person in the original. I have now watched both videos (although as I do not speak Bengali I am not able to understand what the witness said in the second video) and can respond as follows.

In the Daily Telegraph interview I stated that I found the contents of the original video deeply disturbing. I made the point that if the allegations set out in the video are true it warrants a full inquiry into whether there is a practice of witness tampering. I made no assessment as to the authenticity of the video only that it required a full investigation by an independent authority acceptable to all parties.

In my view the fact that the witness has denied making the statement is to be expected. He clearly does not want to go up against the Government, as what is stated in the interview is a very serious allegation.

Over the last 24 hours there have been a number of allegations that the video released was fabricated and that this is merely propaganda. There have also been a number of attacks on my professional integrity, although I have become accustomed to that. I stand by the statement that I made in the Daily Telegraph and repeat the request that there needs to be a full, independent, international inquiry into these matters.

When asked whether I could confirm that the witness in the video was Nannu, I responded:

„I am not in a position to confirm nor deny anything at this stage. I will review the various videos and issue a full statement in due course. I stand by my previous statement that this requires a full investigation by an independent authority. I have absolutely no reason at this stage to doubt that the original video recording of the witness is authentic; however, this should be the subject of an independent investigation.“

http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/09/23/cadman-unsure-about-witness-nannu

Interesting question raised on Twitter this week in relation to the Bangladesh Tribunal. A member of the ICSF...

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UPR/Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal: NPWJ calls for removal of death penalty and strict application of…

Rosatom to open its nuclear information center in Bangladesh October 2

Is AU summit best way to assess support for intl justice in Africa? Support from civil society & victims matters too.

Imagine the following: David Cameron decides that in order to maintain power he needs to cripple the opposition….

Imagine the following: David Cameron decides that in order to maintain power he needs to cripple the opposition. He devises a cunning plan by which he sets in motion a series of prosecutions against members of the opposition. He handpicks prosecutors and judges who are sympathetic to his cause. He directly and indirectly interferes with the process by way of carefully planned public speeches implicating the ’suspects‘, coercing witnesses both for the prosecution and defence and amends the law retrospectively to ensure conviction and the harshest of penalties. Naturally if this happened we would be outraged. Why then are we not outraged when it happens elsewhere?

Bangladesh court sentences Islamist leader to death for war crimes – But does this breach international law?

enacts stricter laws about freedom of expression and arrested bloggers, diluting freedom of expression and belief

ICTJ: Atrocities that took place in require justice that is fair and transparent

ICTJ Concerned by Retroactive Sentencing in Trial

Bangladesh’s War Crimes Trials – Final sentence…

Statement from the International Commission of Jurists Bangladesh: Abdul Quader Mollah death sentence violates…

As part of the Universal Periodic Review by the UN Human Rights Council…

Molla trial judgment para 2: „The degree of fairness as has been contemplated in the Act and Rules of Procedure…

„The degree of fairness as has been contemplated in the Act and Rules of Procedure formulated by the Tribunals … are to be assessed with reference to the national wishes such as the long denial of justice to the victims of the atrocities committed during war of liberation 1971 and the nation as a whole.“

– Prosecution granted 109 days to present case and called 12 witnesses.

– Defence granted 29 days to present case and called 1 witness.