The Rome Statute defines "crimes against humanity" as a set of acts "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population".
The proceedings use the "best practices" of similar tribunals around the world and have established a number of good practices for domestic tribunals trying internationally defined crimes.
The principles defined "crimes against peace", "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity", and were claimed by critics to create a set of "ex post facto" offences, which no law forbad when they were committed.
Since passage of the 1990 law, however, government reviews have shown haphazard compliance, with little uniformity in how colleges defined crimes and how they determined which to include in their reports.
"They have decided that the best they can do it have a law that charges anyone with a federal felony, [rather] than have a law that defines crimes in a reasonable way".
Under the Rome Statute of 1998, the International Criminal Court defines crimes against humanity to include "rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity".
The ruling princes have also moved against dissent in other ways, like imposing a new press law with punishments including a roughly $140,000 fine for vaguely defined crimes like threatening national security.
There, conscious that he was being graded on his performance under the CompStat system, he admitted he often sought to define crimes by their lowest possible classification — but within the procedures of the state penal law and the department's guidelines and legal experts.
We defined crimes as all offences in the penal code, except traffic offences.
At present, a vaguely defined crime ("aggression") may be added to the court's jurisdiction.
The new cabinet also issued its first decree, setting severe penalties for the hazily defined crime of "thuggery".Many Egyptians welcome such moves as necessary to restore stability.
