Sentence examples for tribunals act from inspiring English sources

The military tribunals act bars coerced evidence.

In 1973, the Bangladesh Parliament passed the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act.

But most Muslims of Bengali/Bangladeshi origin voted for Gandhi's Congress Party, which repaid their loyalty by blunting the Assam Accord through the 1983 Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act.

The trial is being held under a revived version of the country's International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973, which was initially presented as South Asia's answer to the Nuremberg trials — only to be set aside in favor of a general amnesty for all participants in the conflict.

I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture.

So in October 2006 the White House effectively pardoned itself by slipping a little-noticed provision into the Military Tribunals Act, conferring effective immunity from the War Crimes Act on high-level officials by making it retroactively inoperative, from 1996 to 2006.

Having long fiercely rejected criticism of the tribunal act, officials are showing signs of softening.

It also emphasizes the responsibility of the judges who in this tribunal act as both judge and jury.

The Law Commission is currently reviewing the country's International War Crimes Tribunal Act 1973 to ensure that it meets international standards of criminal justice.

Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby group, says that "significant improvements" are needed in Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal Act of 1973, under the terms of which trials are to be held.

In fact, it's unlikely that the outcome in this case would have been any different in a military commission because the Military Tribunal Act, passed in 2006, also bars coerced evidence (pdf, see p10).