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[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Dear all, here are some interesting extracts from the United Nations Press release on the recommendations given by the COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE to the Belgian authorities in their 30th session 15 May 2003. (http://193.194.138.190/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/888B6106592D07C2C1256D2800463E1A?opendocument) The report states that the Belgian Government should not interfere with Belgian Jurisdiction. This is interesting news regarding the complaints against General Tommy Franks. To be continued.... Greetings. (and thank you Andreas for the important recent mails you've sent me in Dutch. I transferred them to tha lawyers that introduced the complaint) Dirk adriaensens. www.irak.be "...It cited concern, among other things, at (...) the fact that under regulations on exercising universal competence in Belgium in relation to grave violations of international humanitarian law, the Minister of Justice was authorized in certain cases to take away from a Belgian judge cases brought before him..." " ...The Committee also recommended that Belgium ensure respect for the independence of Belgian jurisdiction from executive power concerning the exercise of universal competence on the matter of grave violations of international humanitarian law;..." _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk