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tisdag 21 maj 2013

The sessions According to the proposed plan, the Tribunal will compromise of two stages: A “Truth Commission” and the “Tribunal”.


The sessions 

According to the proposed plan, the Tribunal will compromise of two stages: A “Truth Commission” and the “Tribunal”.

The Truth Commission


The Commission will aim to collect statements, witness documents, dossiers and to produce a report on extensive executions in the early years of 1980s as well as mass execution of political prisoners in 1988.

Commission allows victims, relatives of victims, journalists, experts and perpetrators to come forth and provide testimony. The strict rules governing the introduction of evidence in trials are typically more relaxed in truth commissions. As a result, during truth commissions, there is a greater opportunity for individuals to come forward with stories of harms they have suffered.

The Truth Commission will hold its sessions in London at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre from 18-22 June 2012.

The Tribunal

The court's proceedings will be unusual, because amongst trials held over the last 100 years, it will be the second people’s court, taking up the case against a government, the other one being the Russell tribunal, held against the crimes of the United States in Vietnam. The Tribunal will investigate among others, the findings of the Truth Commission and will issue a judgements based on this.
The Tribunal allows more victims, relatives of victims, journalists, experts and perpetrators to come forth and provide testimony.

Following the Commission’s hearing, the Tribunal shall open it’s sessions with three to four day hearings in late October or beginning of November 2012, in either Stockholm or The Hague.

http://www.irantribunal.com/index.php/en/

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