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Caliphate to International Criminal Tribunal

by Penny Tucker
April 27, 2019
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At the height of its energy, Islamic State-controlled a population of 12 million and a territory kind of the dimensions of Great Britain. Last week, the very last vestiges of the jihadist organization had been scrubbed from northern Syria, its formerly bold and violent guys searching haggard and defeated as they sat in dusty rows outside of Baghuz. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a predominantly Kurdish militia backed by using the worldwide Coalition in opposition to ISIS, declared military victory on March 23 after the months-long “Cizirê Storm” offensive to disencumber the remaining fragment of the caliphate.

Though this is never the definitive quit of ISIS, the importance of the liberation of Baghuz need to not be underestimated. The significance of the victory was possibly best exemplified by way of pics of lady soldiers throwing the black jihadist flag to the floor and raising in its place the flag of the YPJ, the Women’s Defense Units of the SDF. The symbolism of any such second, against the backdrop of ISIS’s brutal sexual enslavement of Yazidi ladies and weaponization of rape as a device of struggle, changed into misplaced on no person.

 

Sexual slavery is simplest one of several worldwide crimes ISIS is accused of committing, among them the genocide of Yazidi and Christian minorities and other barbaric acts amounting to battle crimes and crimes towards humanity. The important objective of the anti-ISIS Coalition should now be turning injustice to the victims of ISIS crimes, a hard undertaking that must account for each political realities and nation duties beneath global human rights regulation. The pursuit of justice for ISIS crimes is an undeniably worldwide difficulty: in line with the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council, of the at least 57,000 humans in SDF detention camps, extra than 12,000 are ‘foreigners’ from forty eight different international locations.
Refusal to repatriate under worldwide human rights law

Aside from a few limited efforts to go back children underneath the age of 10, states had been reluctant to repatriate their detained ISIS nationals. Most have left their nationals to be transferred from SDF to Iraqi custody, with a few states, most significantly the UK, stripping citizenship with a view to officially abdicate duty for repatriation and prosecutorial efforts.

Current repatriation policies increase numerous issues beneath international regulation. Citizenship revocation, for example, is in critical battle with Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which protects a man or woman’s right to a nationality and prohibits arbitrary deprivation of nationality.

Stripping a character of the sole in preference to dual citizenship similarly violates the provisions of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention at the Reduction of Statelessness, both of which might be binding international law on states parties.

Citizenship revocation violates the presumption of innocence precept and the right to a truthful trial, punishing individuals without a doubt attempting and convicting them of any crime in a courtroom of regulation and depriving them the potential to mount a defense. Moreover, denationalization rules cannot be justified on the grounds of security coverage: there’s no proof that citizenship deprivation deters, reduces, or halts terrorist threats to national safety or prevents the centered individual from committing future terrorist acts.

On the opposite, citizenship deprivation leaves intelligence and policing government much less able to reveal and surveil former ISIS participants.

Second, by refusing to repatriate their nationals, states events to human rights conventions like the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) are potentially in breach of their prison responsibility to uphold truthful trial rights and due process guarantees.

According to several global human rights businesses and monitoring bodies, terrorism trials conducted in Iraqi courts are in violation of due method and honest trial requirements as required beneath each the Constitution of Iraq and global regulation.

Fair trial concerns are especially acute inside the case of foreigners; as a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch located after attending several dozen terrorism trials in Iraq: “The presumption is because you are foreign, and you were in ISIS territory, there may be no need to offer greater evidence.”

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