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7 - Individuals, Their Human Rights and Their International Criminal Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

Stefan Talmon
Affiliation:
University of Bonn
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This chapter is structured in seven parts: position of individual, human rights, international refugee law, nationality and statelessness, international terrorism, international health law and international criminal law. The second part covers the denial of a Ukrainian extradition request by a German court, and Germany’s concerns over human rights of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The fourth part assesses a decision by a German court that there is no Palestinian State and no Palestinian nationality. The fifth covers the Federal Prosecutor General accusing Russia of State-ordered murder. The seventh encompasses a German court’s sentence against a member of the Syrian opposition for war crimes against persons, the Federal Public Prosecutor General declining to bring charges against members of the Federal Government for aiding the killing of Iranian General Soleimani, a German court sentencing the handing over of a child to an ‘Islamic State’ training camp in Syria as a war crime of enlisting children, the conviction of an IS member by a German court for aiding and abetting a crime against humanity by enslavement and the conviction of an IS member of war crimes by a German court.

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Print publication year: 2023

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