Sentence examples for constituted crimes from inspiring English sources

"The widespread and systematic nature of the killings, the detentions and the acts of torture -- I felt that these acts constituted crimes against humanity," Ms. Pillay told reporters.

But some observers say that in wrapping up so quickly, prosecutors may not have clearly established how Mr. Blagojevich's schemes constituted crimes.

The commission concluded that many of the violations constituted crimes against humanity, and suggested they could be placed before the international criminal court.

Surely there is someone in government who has read the report on Eritrea by the UN human rights council, which concluded that the Afwerki regime was committing such "gross human-rights violations" that they constituted "crimes against humanity"?

Partly to stop such creeping denialism, Argentina's supreme court ruled in 2009 that the dictatorship's killings between 1976 and 1983 constituted "crimes against humanity within the framework of [a] genocide".

A statement released at the end of the Paris conference, which was attended by 24 countries as well as the Arab League, the EU and the UN, said they supported an inquiry led by the UN high commissioner for human rights into whether the slaughter of Iraqi and Syrian civilians constituted crimes against humanity.

"The constitute crimes against humanity".

The disappearances, he concluded, constitute "crimes against humanity".

UN commissioners are now trying to establish if those violations constitute crimes against humanity.

"If offenders' behaviors constitute crimes, they will be held criminally responsible".

The attacks amounted to war crimes, and the killings and rapes may constitute crimes against humanity, the report said.