Sentence examples for offences of war from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors and detectives have been working on building a criminal case against Mohammed Emwazi, 26, for potential offences of war crimes and multiple counts of murder, the Guardian has learned.

"The defendants are charged with criminal offences of war crimes against civilian population, including torture, mistreatment of prisoners, and murder," it said in a statement.

Lody was charged with two offences of war treason concerning the two letters he had sent from Edinburgh on 27 September and Dublin on 30 September.

Proponents of world government may be heartened by the realization of one institutional development in the contemporary world order the establishment of an International Criminal Court (ICC) to try individuals, including heads of state, for the offences of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In November Lieber wrote Halleck to urge the appointment of "a committee … to draw up a code … in which certain acts and offences (under the Law of War) ought to be defined and, where necessary, the punishment be stated".

Sarah Colborne of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign said: "It is an outrage that the British government appears to have offered Tzipi Livni immunity from prosecution for the gravest of offences – war crimes … Livni may be desperately trying to run, and hide, from justice.

The US Court of Appeals in DC held in the Hamdan case that 'material support' was not a valid law of war offence that was subject to trial before a military commission.

In Britain we have our own versions of the impunity, which encompass equality laws, the laws of war, sexual offences law.

Khan's guilty plea makes him the seventh prisoner to be convicted of war crimes offences since the military tribunal system was established at Guantanamo Bay.

Unlike the special tribunals set up to hear cases of war crimes and other egregious offences after the wars in Yugoslavia, the mass genocide in Rwanda and the violence of Sierra Leone's civil war (and another that belatedly opened prosecutions last month against surviving perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia), the ICC is independent of the UN.

He was charged with and convicted of an offence that had no foundation under the laws of war at the time.