Britain a safe haven for war criminals
The British government has taken another measure in favour of Israeli regime, as it announced legal reform, which would make it tougher to arrest the suspected war criminals.
Britain, being under constant pressure from Israel, amended a law on Thursday making it tougher for the ordinary people and anti-war activists to get arrest warrant against those who are suspected of committing human rights abuses in other countries.
According to Press TV, since 2001, UK’s universal jurisdiction law has given the power to British courts to prosecute suspected war criminals and torturers, even if their alleged crimes took place in another country. The principle of the law goes back to the belief that some crimes including genocide, torture and hostage-taking must be fought wherever the criminal can be arrested.
Now, the legal reform has angered ordinary citizens and human rights campaigners, believing the amendments would keep the criminals away from justice.
Geoffrey Robertson, a UN judge who has delivered main verdicts on war crimes, said, "This marks a backward, nervous step by the U.K., which is reluctant to bring tyrants and torturers to justice if it suits the government to sell them arms or to turn a blind eye to their human rights violations."
Amnesty International also accused the British government of planning to give war criminals "a free ticket to escape the law.”
Source: irib.ir
