Rights group says Myanmar judges should be referred to ICC
[JURIST] President of the Global Justice Center [advocacy website] Janet Benshoof said [press release] Thursday that judges who participated in the trials and convictions of 60 political activists [JURIST report] in Myanmar [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] last week are co-conspirators of crimes against humanity and should be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. In a statement, Benshoof explained that the circumstances of the hearings – in which many defendants did not have legal representation, those who did were not allowed to meet with their lawyers in private, and in which defendants could not question the prosecution witnesses – justified a referral to the ICC. read more…
