Along with other powers, the A.F.S.P.A. grants legal immunity to soldiers, thereby protecting them from prosecution in cases of murder and rape.
What flows from Kabul, the experts say, is permission for unfettered extraction, protection in case of prosecution and punishment in case the official opposes the system or gets out of line.
Yet college authorities routinely let college-boy rapists go without expulsion or suspension, let alone criminal prosecution, even in cases of repeat offenders.
This was an industry-agreed policy, created to improve the reporting process and enhance the chances of successful prosecution in the case of criminal damage".
The Pakistani officials who discussed the general's meeting today with Ms. Chamberlin said they had little doubt that Mr. Sheikh would eventually be turned over to the American authorities for prosecution in the case of Mr. Pearl and in the kidnapping of four Westerners, including one American, in India in 1994.
In exchange for providing the Bush administration with pseudoscientific license to torture, Mitchell and Jessen were paid over $1 million each, and given a $5 million indemnity agreement to cover legal costs in case of prosecution.
But the prosecution in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, the two former Libyan airline officials who are accused of being intelligence agents and of blowing up the plane in an act of terrorism, did not start so intimately.
It is expert testimony for the prosecution, in the case of Earth v. Man.
A court has ruled that it has no authority to pursue a murder prosecution in the case of a man who was killed two years ago in a clash between pro-reform students and hard-line vigilantes.
It is compulsory to declare occupational accidents and disease cases, and inspection agents examine all accidents in order to establish the causes and consequences, and to initiate prosecution in the case of criminal negligence.
