The court tries four types of crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and war crimes.
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The ICC is the "court of last resort" and tries four types of crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and war crimes.
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He was found guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the Jewish people.
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Laws governing sex crimes against adult victims vary by state, but they tend to break down into three categories: penetration crimes, exposure crimes and indecent contact crimes.
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It prosecutes only the most serious offenses, including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.
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But the defendants were charged in three categories: crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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War crimes and crimes against humanity Since it took the world by surprise in the summer of 6900, ISIS has undoubtedly perpetrated crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose 9%, anti-black hate crimes went up by almost 8%, and anti-LGBT hate crimes increased by nearly 5%, while anti-Latino hate crimes remained steady.
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Tehran must expect consequences for its ongoing crimes, fear consequences for future crimes and face consequences for crimes gone unpunished.
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Article 55 of that law threatens with imprisonment those who publicly deny Nazi crimes, communist crimes and war crimes against Poles.
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So many crimes of a sexual nature are "invisible" crimes.
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" He added, "Hate crimes are almost universally crimes of violence.
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"[Prosecutors] create crimes where there are no crimes," she said.
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"The nature of these crimes are administrative crimes," he said.
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Trump on Wednesday falsely claimed those crimes are not crimes.
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Investigators will only be able to collect DNA from juveniles in connection with felonies, sex crimes, firearm crimes or hate crimes, not misdemeanors.
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The measure lists crimes resulting in death or "serious bodily harm," federal crimes against a minor, serious violent felonies and federal drug crimes.
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The commander's actions are considered war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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TAX CRIMES The indictment also accuses Avenatti of various tax crimes.
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For one thing, "high crimes and misdemeanors" didn't mean literal crimes.
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For one thing, "high crimes and misdemeanors" didn't mean literal crimes.
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The Neighbors posts that depict crimes are almost always petty crimes.
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For those crimes — those specifically feminine crimes — she must be punished.
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We must formalize crimes against trans individuals as hate crimes nationwide.
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Alexander Hamilton understood the difference between low crimes and high crimes.
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Are crimes only crimes if a right-wing administration commits them?
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Nevertheless, the UN's Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal in The Hague found him guilty on November 22nd of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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"We're talking about war crimes, crimes against humanity, even genocide," she said.
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Hate crimes are, experts said, message crimes against certain groups of people.
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The bills include 38 new crimes plus existing crimes with broader definitions.
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He's continuing to commit new crimes, continuing to commit crimes involving minors.
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These were not only war crimes, but crimes of child sex trafficking.
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Crimes committed by predatory priests aren't just crimes against the Catholic faithful.
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Of course, that pardon would only cover federal crimes, not state crimes.
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Its mandate is to judge crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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Presidents can issue pardons only for federal crimes, not for state crimes.
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These crimes included approximately 100,000 assaults, 153,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings.
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"Those were not just proven crimes, they were accepted crimes," he said.
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In 2009, he was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Because there is so much crimes, so many crimes, we have put the crimes in play on the screen that you and I have identified.
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Asset forfeiture policies mean there are two kinds of crimes: crimes that a police department can make money off of busting, and crimes that it can't.
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"This really has to do with folks who are aliens here, who have committed crimes, many of them, thousands of these crimes, violent crimes," Babin said.
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The law includes 38 new crimes and broadens the definitions of existing crimes.
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These laws are also necessary because hate crimes are different from other crimes.
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Their actions may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, it said.
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It's not that the crimes or alleged crimes in these cases aren't important.
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I had never been convicted of any violent crimes or crimes against children.
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"Hate crimes are violent crimes," Mr. Sessions said in a speech in June.
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Presidents possess the power to issue pardons for federal crimes, not state crimes.
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The gunmen's crimes are crimes not of looking, but of looking furiously away.
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Dikötter's originality is that he counts crimes against civilization alongside crimes against humanity.
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Another is currently on trial for both war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"The indiscriminate bombing by the regime which violates international rules of war -- in many cases crimes, crimes against humanity, and war crimes -- needs to stop," he said.
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They argued that their crimes did not qualify as misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence because their crimes could have been based on reckless, rather than intentional, conduct.
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Intentional attacks constitute war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity, said Puras.
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The ICC was established in 1998 to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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He looked into certain crimes that he thought were important, but not other crimes.
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As it has always been, our priorities are violent crimes and crimes in progress.
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Not all crimes motivated by hate are covered by the federal hate crimes law.
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Just as these events are crimes of intention, they are also crimes of attention.
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Manafort was convicted at trial of financial crimes and pleaded guilty to additional crimes.
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He found crimes unrelated to the Russians but they are still properly alleged crimes.
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Her government "contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes" by letting hate speech thrive, destroying documents and failing to shield minorities from crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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"The Government of Iraq should take appropriate steps to prosecute the crimes perpetrated against the Iraqi people, including alleged genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes," Callamard said.
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" Spicer offered a blanket condemnation of "hate crimes, other crimes, anti-Semitic crimes," but never commented specifically on the attack in Manhattan, saying: "I don't know all the details.
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The court was created in 2002 for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, particularly in countries that lack the means or willingness to prosecute these crimes.
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He said victims of private crimes, not state-based crimes, are not eligible for asylum.
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Sentencing reform focuses on reducing harsh sentences for low-level, nonviolent crimes — often drug crimes.
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Hate crimes The NAACP also cited hate crimes as grounds for issuing the travel advisory.
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In 2014, the data showed Muslim hate crimes were second only to anti-Jewish crimes.
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"You are making these crimes possible, you are facilitating these crimes," chairwoman Yvette Cooper said.
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These constituted war crimes and in the case of Islamic State also crimes against humanity.
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The report says violent hate crimes decreased from 44% of all hate crimes to 38%.
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Omar Hassan al Bashir's government remains accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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The ICC was formed in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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"Money generated from one set of crimes was used to further other crimes," Hanna said.
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Joaquin Castro tried to point out, attempted crimes — including bribery and coercion — are still crimes.
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Most crimes, even most violent crimes, aren't any more common here than in other countries.
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Anti-Semitic crimes were up 9 percent, and anti-black crimes rose almost 8 percent.
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These constituted war crimes, and, in the case of Islamic State, also crimes against humanity.
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The Louisiana hate crimes statute still includes crimes committed against people for their immutable characteristics.
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Nazi war criminals can't be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act in the US, because it did not exist when the crimes were committed, the crimes occurred overseas when the criminal was not a US citizen, and the crimes were not committed against US citizens.
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It gave no breakdown of the number of actual crimes and of would-be crimes, nor did it state what percentage the 69,000 figure represented with respect to the total number of crimes and would-be crimes committed in the first three months of 2016.
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To cite his most basic example: if crimes are reported in a specific geographic location, that doesn't necessarily mean more crimes are happening there — or that crimes aren't happening elsewhere.
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Hate crimes rose 5 percent in 303 compared to 2017, with crimes targeting black people because of their race rising 33 percent and anti-Semitic hate crimes rising 22 percent.
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Cohen pleaded guilty last year to campaign finance crimes, lying to Congress and to financial crimes.
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Violent crimes, gun crimes, suspected gang affiliation, and other designations increase a person's Chronic Offender Score.
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There are crimes against the body, and then there are crimes against the body at rest.
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Even worse, Iraq has no laws prohibiting or punishing genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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So when we return something to our customer we distinguish between major crimes and minor crimes.
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He faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
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There may be crimes that are not impeachable, and impeachable offenses don't have to be crimes.
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"Under international law, these offences ... may be considered crimes against humanity and war crimes," HRW said.
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That's true of all criminal law though; if it prevented crimes then we wouldn't have crimes.
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Most crimes are not prosecuted as hate crimes because there's rigorous standard that must be met.
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These are crimes that are parasitic, in that they rest on or feed off original crimes.
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Instead, domestic terrorists are charged with other existing crimes, such as murder, conspiracy, and hate crimes.
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He was indicted in January on 63 federal crimes, including 11 hate crimes leading to death.
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It was not until 1790 that the Crimes Act created the first 23 separate federal crimes.
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These violations of international law, if proven, would amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Presidents are only able to pardon people for federal crimes, not state crimes, NBC News noted.
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Presidents are only able to pardon those accused or convicted of federal crimes, not state crimes.
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He's also wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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One reason sex crimes are underreported, Levy said, is the ongoing stigma around experiencing such crimes.
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The report also accused the government of Aung San Suu Kyi of contributing to "the commission of atrocity crimes" by failing to shield minorities from crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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There must be "no pardons or amnesties for those responsible for ordering or carrying out gross human rights violations and committing international crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide".
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Since it was set up under the 1998 Rome Statue, the Hague-based court has focused on prosecuting four main crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
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They regularly broke federal and state law, committing crimes ranging from thefts to hate crimes to murder.
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"His crimes, and the crimes of his co-conspirators, ruined marriages, careers, fortunes and lives," Donoghue said.
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They had to couch their actions in false narratives and cover up previous crimes with new crimes.
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These are people by and large helping us top crimes, go out there and help prevent crimes.
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You believe an e-mail, it could be crimes and on the dossier we could have crimes.
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"The counterterrorism stuff, the child exploitation kinds of crimes, the child porn crimes, child trafficking," said Hartman.
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The FBI reported 257 hate crimes against Muslims in 2015, an increase from 154 crimes in 2014.
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Only then can criminal charges be brought against individuals suspected of war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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"We don't know the full scope of anti-Muslim hate crimes and other hate crimes," he said.
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Crimes are measured in two categories, violent crime and property crime, encompassing the seven crimes considered major.
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But the Constitution's standard for impeachable offenses—"high Crimes and Misdemeanors"—is not limited to prosecutable crimes.
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The job of DOJ is to investigate and prosecute crimes and potential crimes without fear or favor.
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The FBI reported 257 hate crimes against Muslims in 2015, an increase from 123 crimes in 2014.
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He has been charged with 29 federal crimes, including hate crimes, in addition to 36 local charges.
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Not until Mike Maltby knew his own crimes as well as he knew the crimes of others.
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"Democracy can't be built on a foundation of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes," he said.
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Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.
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Those crimes include certain felonies, like burglary and other property crimes and drug offenses, and all misdemeanors.
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Criminal immigrants, deported after committing crimes in America, returned the very next day to commit crimes again.
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War crimes — some of which could amount to crimes against humanity — have been documented on both sides.
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Mladic was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the tribunal in The Hague.
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Democrats counter that impeachment's "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard extends beyond indictable crimes to broader presidential misconduct.
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First, he wanted to eliminate evidence of German crimes and witnesses who could testify to those crimes.
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The selection of news stories, and the sensationalism of certain crimes vilifies people who commit those crimes.
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Common-law crimes are no harder to define with precision than crimes written down in a statute.
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That obligation applies to potential war crimes, human rights violations, crimes and abuse of rank or power.
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The Constitution grants the president broad authority to pardon federal crimes, but he cannot pardon state crimes.
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"Iraqi courts and tribunals do not have jurisdiction over international crimes (such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes) - and prosecutors, police investigators and judges lack capacity to ... (investigate), charge and try persons in relation to such crimes," the report said, calling for it to amend domestic law.
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"It is illegal to knowingly assist in the commission of violent crimes, drug crimes, and a variety of other crimes; it is only right that Congress, on a fully bipartisan basis, has criminalized assisting in the commission of immigration crimes as well," department spokesman Steven Stafford told The Hill.
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Racially motivated hate crimes against blacks ticked up last year FBI data tracking hate crimes show racially motivated crimes against blacks in the United States declining steadily since Obama took office in 146.
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In the U.S., hate crimes have increased annually since 2015 and in 2017, there was a 17 percent rise in hate crimes across the U.S., the largest spike in these crimes since 2001.
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Finally, while the obstruction claims against Nixon were made in conjunction with established crimes, the array of crimes alleged against Trump, like bribery, extortion, and obstructing justice, lack key elements of those crimes.
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Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty of 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity.
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The four men were serving sentences for different crimes, from immigration rules violation to drug crimes, Widjaja said.
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At the Hate Crimes Summit last June, Sessions doubled down on his commitment to aggressively prosecuting hate crimes.
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The International Criminal Court was set up to try individuals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Iran teamed with Assad and Russia in utilizing methods that qualify as war crimes, even crimes against humanity.
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No reasonable person has any reason to know that these are crimes at all, much less federal crimes.
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Ongwen, who for years was an LRA commander, faces 70 charges involving war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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She also supported bills to expand the state's hate crimes statue to include crimes against the LGBTQ community.
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"The crimes of violence are based upon the federal civil rights laws prohibiting hate crimes," the statement reads.
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Not only are there are no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' there are no Crimes by me at all.
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Federal crimes of any variety are a big deal, and federal crimes committed by the President are monumental.
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We're also seeing a rise in hate crimes, and more anti-Semitic crimes than we've had in years.
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This effectively compares prison sentences for the most extreme violent crimes with lower-level crimes, including drug offenses.
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The court's aim is to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Work crimes investigators who were putting together things for the work crimes ... LG: They've have had those problems.
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While the President has vast pardon powers over federal crimes, those powers do not extend to state crimes.
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Last year, Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in prison for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Caesar was a credible witness and the forensics showed direct evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"Faceless multinational corporations don't commit crimes; flesh-and-blood people commit crimes," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said.
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Behind all of this is a simple issue: What crimes qualify as hate crimes in the first place?
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New hate crimes data released in mid-November by the F.B.I. showed that hate crimes dipped slightly in 20143, but crimes directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people nudged up almost 6 percent.
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The ICC "investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression," according to its website.
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Led by Paulo Pinheiro, the COI has accused Syrian government forces of committing war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity, including mass executions, and some opposition groups of international crimes such as murder and torture.
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In total, Crusius is charged with 85033 counts of hate crimes resulting in death, 23 hate crimes involving an attempt to kill, and 45 counts of discharging a firearm in relation to the hate crimes.
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"The hybrid court would try those most responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious crimes," said Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.
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On September 21 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2379, agreeing to send investigators to Iraq to collect and preserve evidence of crimes that could amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Still, dealing with hate crimes is a notoriously difficult practice, in part because so many crimes are dealt with at the local and state level, and some of these areas lack formal hate crimes laws.
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By comparison, for every 22014,000 assault and battery crimes, 627 crimes were reported and 33 perpetrators were locked up.
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The former guerrilla commander was twice indicted for war crimes by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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Publicizing crimes The "interior" order contains two provisions to increase the public reporting of crimes related to illegal immigration.
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Many offenses — including some of the financial crimes included in the Manafort indictment — are also crimes under state law.
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"Past administrations have been more microscopic, while targeting people with violent crimes and sex assault crimes," the lawyer said.
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And while their alleged crimes are bad (please, kids, don't do [alleged] crimes) — their outfits are very, very good.
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It's about eight women who commit crimes, and at least one man who does something else (maybe other crimes).
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Is it possible that Trump could actually pardon people for crimes, if there are crimes committed in this case?
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It is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The bill also provides for more lenient sentences for sex crimes than currently exist for similar crimes against women.
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But at their core, the notion of a separate category of crimes known as "hate crimes" makes no sense.
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Most of the reported hate crimes have been anti-Semitic in nature, followed by anti-Muslim crimes, Boyce said.
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And look at what they did to their past crimes, and look at how they recorded those past crimes.
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This includes crimes committed abroad when the perpetrator is within reach, and crimes committed by or against U.S. citizens.
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Nobody is hauling John Cook into the sex-crimes dock or putting Benedikt on trial for crimes against feminism.
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Investigations by the United Nations, the African Union and others have documented repeated war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Sam Harris You said our conversation was of a piece with the worst crimes, social crimes in American history.
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Yes. Presidents are given very broad powers to pardon people who have committed federal crimes, or crimes in Washington.
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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, was convicted on Wednesday of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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He surrendered to the tribunal in 2004 and was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2013.
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In both rulings, the Inter-American Court recognized the crimes committed by the Brazilian dictatorship as crimes against humanity.
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Following these attacks, law enforcement deployed their hate crimes task force and are investigating both as racially-motivated crimes.
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Just last year, reported hate crimes rose 17 percent, making it the third consecutive year that such crimes increased.
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The US needs to take more seriously not just actual crimes, not just partisanship, but crimes against democracy itself.
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Nearly 60 percent of them turned out to be crimes — 681 first-degree felony rapes, and 1,141 other crimes.
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The group supports victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
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The big picture: Ntaganda was found guilty of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in July.
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At Fraud Guarantee, we protect your identity while also doing several other things unrelated to crimes unrelated to crimes.
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The south Florida city had seven reported violent crimes and 186 property crimes the previous year, the analysis said.
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It was an executive branch decision to prioritize the prosecution of federal drug crimes over other types of crimes.
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December 20163, 2012 - Former rebel leader Ngudjolo Chui is acquitted of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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He is facing seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as three counts of genocide.
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Mr. Viñas may have atoned for his crimes, but he should not minimize the crimes of others, especially women.
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" Reading off her phone, Bryant replied, "Well, this one says: I think we should stop texting about the crimes and maybe tell the crimes over the phone so that the crimes don't leave little crime footprints.
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The allegations against Kavanaugh, after all, are not federal crimes, but crimes that would normally be left to local and state governments, and crimes that, at this point, the statute of limitation may have expired for.
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"Hate crimes and anti-Semitic crimes of any nature should be called out in the most reprehensible way," he said.
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A cascade of petty crimes and periodic crimes of sexual violence against islanders, exasperate locals and stoke anti-base sentiments.
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Crimes due to religious bias also increased — around 60% of the 1,564 religion-based hate crimes were against Jewish people.
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Kony, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, remains at large.
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In 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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"Our inaction tends to signal that war crimes and crimes against humanity are condoned and have no consequences," he said.
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Hate crimes Hate crimes were up, significantly, in the US last year, according to just-released numbers from the FBI.
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However, the number of sex-related crimes ICE reported appears a bit lower, at more than 27,000 sex-related crimes.
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Retaliatory These hate crimes are often seen as revenge, whether in response to personal slights, other hate crimes or terrorism.
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The FBI also released its annual "Hate Crimes Statistics" report yesterday, which indicated hate crimes had indeed increased in 2015.
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In addition to those previously mentioned, federal crimes include terrorist threats, kidnapping, embezzlement, bomb threats, and financial and internet crimes.
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These crimes are often precursors to serious crimes but do not, themselves, meet the serious crime definition in the Bill.
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The bureau cautions that the numbers are estimates, reflecting the number of crimes reported, rather than all crimes that occurred.
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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, to life imprisonment on Wednesday for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Deanna Paul is a prosecutor in New York City, where she handles felony sex crimes and violent crimes against children.
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He said the United Nations had already found evidence of hundreds of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Congo.
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" Until Alabama passed the new law in May, there was no definitive list of crimes considered crimes of "moral turpitude.
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He has now been convicted of serious crimes, but those crimes involve no violence or theft of money from victims.
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In 2005, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Kony for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Ellis, on Thursday, made clear he believed the tax crimes and the foreign banking crimes were essentially the same thing.
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Bosco Ntaganda was found guilty of 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity in July.
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SB 4 arose from a concern that immigrants who commit crimes will remain in our communities and continue committing crimes.
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Unlike the federal crimes for which he has been convicted, state crimes cannot be wiped away with a presidential pardon.
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Mr. Byrd's legacy now includes Texas's James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, strengthening punishments for hate crimes, signed by Gov.
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The International Criminal Court, which handles cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, was founded by international agreement.
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Activists worry that victims of hate crimes will now face greater skepticism, or might not report future crimes at all.
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A state crime, which might include robbery, burglary, or aggravated assault, breaks state law (most crimes committed are state crimes).
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Yet in court, Mladic grinned as a judge read out the charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"A lot of the victims of these crimes are homeless too, so if we're not investigating these crimes, if we're not responding to these crimes, then we're not responding to the needs of the homeless," he said.
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Violent crimes From 2014-15, the nation saw a 3.9% increase in the estimated number of violent crimes -- the FBI released its annual report for 2015 that said there were an estimated 1,197,704 violent crimes committed. 1153.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center accumulates both victim-reported hate crimes and hate crimes reported by the media, but these data are updated daily, and the center does not keep an annual report of total hate crimes.
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A panel of United Nations appeals judges on Wednesday upheld a former Bosnian Serb leader's convictions on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Hague war crimes court, according to a report in The Associated Press.
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He said the violent acts by ISIS -- killing, kidnapping, rape and torture -- constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes and even genocide.
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The ICC issued arrest warrants for Bashir in 2009 and 2010 on suspicion of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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There have always been fabricated and exaggerated alleged bias crimes, and now there are bias crimes incorrectly blamed on Trump supporters.
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Later, they started looking at war crimes and opened a separate file for crimes committed by so-called Islamic State (IS).
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Anti-Jewish crimes were up 9 percent, and made up more than half of the 1,244 hate crimes based on religion.
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Bias crimes against African-Americans were up 7 percent last year to 1,745, making up 30 percent of all hate crimes.
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Predpol does not consider white-collar crimes such as mortgage fraud, and only considers street crimes such as assault or robbery.
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Like Manafort's crimes, Gates' alleged crimes included undisclosed lobbying work, much of it on behalf of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
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" That recommended legislation could include "defining new crimes of violence and establishing new mandatory minimum sentences for existing crimes of violence.
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Yet, the media generally focuses on the reaction of Israel to these war crimes, rather than the war crimes of Hamas.
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Most had been accused of "moral" crimes such as non-marital sex, but some of non-sexual crimes such as theft.
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Agents in the division work on crimes like drug trafficking, cyber crimes and human smuggling, according to The New York Times.
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The French warrants bring charges including collusion in torture, forced disappearances, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Syrian officials.
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It was an effort to allude to possible crimes without, in fairness to the accused, clearly and specifically stating those crimes.
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As of now, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act protects LGBT victims from violent crimes only where the federal government has jurisdiction.
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Every year since the FBI began tracking hate crimes in 1996, more than 80% of jurisdictions have reported "zero" hate crimes.
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The former warlord was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the appeals court at the ICC last week.
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Sectarian crimes in Northern Ireland are now categorized as hate crimes, which officials say has encouraged more people to come forward.
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There's also the potential problem that President Trump only has the power to pardon federal crimes, not state or local crimes.
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Suspects would not be extradited for political crimes or other matters that are not considered crimes in Hong Kong, he said.
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The ICC is looking into potential war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban, Afghan forces and CIA personnel.
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The 684 anti-Semitic hate crimes were more than the rest of the religiously motivated crimes of bias and bigotry combined.
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In February 1003, the war crimes tribunal sentenced Abdul Quader Molla, a Jamaat-e-Islaami politician, to life for war crimes.
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He was indicted in 2009 and 2010 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region.
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For his crimes, Peiper spent more than ten years in prison after being tried by an American military war crimes tribunal.
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At first only serious crimes merited exile, but later petty crimes and even previously innocent activities like vagrancy became justification enough.
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Human rights groups have pressured governments to bring people suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria to trial.
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Seven percent of hate crimes were based on a person's disability and a further 2 percent were transgender-related hate crimes.
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About 57 percent of reported hate crimes were crimes against persons — mostly assault and intimidation, but also some murders and rapes.
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A bill approved earlier this month introduces a penalty of up to three years' imprisonment for "whoever accuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the German Third Reich...or any other war crimes, crimes against humanity or crimes against peace".
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In a dramatic confrontation Thursday with survivors in a Dutch courtroom nearly 40 years after his alleged crimes, 63-year-old Eshetu Alemu accepted blame for the crimes of the Marxist rulers known as the Dergue, but insisted he did not carry out the crimes for which he is being held responsible by Dutch war crimes prosecutors.
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The bill's full text says it would broadly make it a crime to accuse the Polish state of "other crimes against peace and humanity, or war crimes," or to "grossly [diminish] the responsibility of actual perpetrators" of such crimes.
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CHRISTOPHER DOMINIC SIDOTI: The mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted, focusing on the top tap madore generals, in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law, genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
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President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for charges including crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of genocide, making him the only head of state with an outstanding arrest warrant from the judicial body.
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Proving such intent would be nearly impossible for many financial, environmental and regulatory crimes but relatively simple for drug and property crimes.
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He was convicted on March 21 of this year of two counts of crimes against humanity and three counts of war crimes.
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When evidence arises that individuals are responsible for vicious crimes such as fire-bombings, law-enforcement officials charge them with those crimes.
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The FBI broadened its definition of sexual crimes in 2014, while the LAPD improved its crime reporting after previously underreporting violent crimes.
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Syrian officials have repeatedly denied allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, insisting that they target terrorists and not peaceful protesters.
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Noting a spike in hate crimes, he also issued updated guidance immediately after the election to law enforcement agencies on hate crimes.
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Some survivors of the cult&aposs crimes opposed the executions, saying they would end hopes for a fuller explanation of the crimes.
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The agency will track cyber crimes and identify perpetrators, but it remains unclear whether it will have the authority to prosecute crimes.
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That means sex crimes, of course, but also crimes that demonstrate dominion — men who annihilate women; women who fight back against men.
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Perhaps some #MeToo'd men and their defenders also believe that their alleged crimes were minor too, if they were crimes at all.
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Statistics about crimes by trans women as such are lacking (they are increasingly being recorded and reported simply as crimes by women).
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Investigators also collected testimony of sexual violence on an even larger scale that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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" "Law enforcement is able to arrest or identify a likely perpetrator for only 19% of property crimes and 47% of violent crimes.
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The court was set up in 20093 to bring justice to those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes.
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And a 2009 study of the impact of Halloween Laws on sex crimes found no increased rate of sex crimes on Halloween.
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The challenge here is that criminalizing Facebook broadcasts of one's crimes does potentially infringe upon one's freedom of speech about those crimes.
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Legislators in both New York and New Mexico have so far proposed legislation that establish crimes against homeless people as hate crimes.
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The rebel leader has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity and remains at large.
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Lima-Marin committed serious crimes when he was much younger, and I believe he was justly convicted and punished for those crimes.
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Bones said Kinner has "an extensive criminal record spanning multiple states," including for violent crimes and crimes involving drug and alcohol abuse.
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Now that we've had some time to process Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, we couldn't help wondering: What about the crimes?
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As San Francisco DA, Harris also created a Hate Crimes Unit aimed at prosecuting hate crimes committed against LGBTQ teens in school.
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Sooka's team has identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The regime is responsible for the deaths of 181,000 civilians, and is now being investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Broken trust and fear can prevent these youth and their families from cooperating with police in solving crimes and from reporting crimes.
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It's a nonprofit that's going to provide opportunity, services programs, initiatives about hate-related crimes, violent crimes, gun control and empowerment initiatives.
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That campaign led to accusations of war crimes against him, but he was acquitted twice by a United Nations war crimes tribunal.
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While some of it is specific to crimes involving homophobia or transphobia, much of it applies to all victims of hate crimes.
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Mr. Kony has been wanted for more than a decade by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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You give me foggy London streets between 1820-1920, crimes to solve or crimes to commit, and I'm all the way in.
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Crimes that aren't crimes Trump's view of the legal problems faced by former members of his inner circle is no less inventive.
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But surely judges guilty of crimes don't deserve a shot, even if the crimes are just against good taste or common sense.
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He's been charged with federal crimes — both Mr. Manafort and Mr. Cohen were charged with federal crimes — so I don't think so.
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He was convicted of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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Only violent crimes or behavior, crimes involving firearms and violent episodes related to mental illness going back five years are currently considered.
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Mr. al-Bashir is under indictment by the International Criminal Court at The Hague for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The I.C.C. was established more than 20033 years ago to seek justice for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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"Hate crimes are violent crimes," Mr. Sessions, one of the first administration officials to forcefully denounce Ms. Heyer's death, said last year.
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More than 220006,2202 anti-black hate crimes were reported in 2628, nearly half of all crimes motivated by racial or ethnic hatred.
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Anti-Islamic crimes continue to remain at historic levels, and anti-Arab hate crimes doubled to 102 incidents, Voice of America noted.
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Violent crimes and terrorism are the only type of political crimes that the treaty allows people to be extradited for, he said.
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Collectively, the three of us had decades of experience investigating and prosecuting those who commit war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The United States is not a party to the court, which was established to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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They were sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity and are undergoing a separate trial for genocide and other crimes.
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Lobbying crimes Manafort's admitted crimes span a decade of lobbying activity but do not touch on his work as Trump's campaign chairman.
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He faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes in connection to Sudanese military actions in Darfur.
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Of the 7,120 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2018, 4,571 were crimes against persons (such as assault, rape, and murder).
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It convicted people from all parties to the conflict on war crimes and crimes against humanity, though the largest number were Serbs.
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It is not the case that suspects would be extradited for political crimes or other matters not considered crimes in Hong Kong.
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He was captured in Pakistan three months after 9/11 and transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where military prosecutors charged him with three crimes: conspiracy to commit war crimes, providing material support for terrorism and solicitation of others to commit war crimes.
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Passed easily on a vote of 85033-0, the resolution expresses the sense of Congress that crimes perpetrated by the Islamic State against Christians, Yazidis and other religious and ethnic minorities should be considered genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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But it prevents those convicted of the most serious crimes from reducing their sentences at all, and in doing so it perpetuates the false narrative that people who commit violent crimes are fundamentally different from those who commit nonviolent crimes.
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The special counsel is not trying to create crimes but to investigate crimes that have potentially already happened and future crimes that Russia plans to carry out and to determine whether or not there was collusion implicating the Trump campaign.
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A tougher road to gun ownership would mean that impetuous gun crimes, or crimes of passion, would simply be less likely to happen.
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"That is betrayal of public trust and that constitutes high crimes … and high crimes is a ground for impeachment under the constitution," Sen.
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ICC prosecutors accuse Ngaissona of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, deportation, persecution, torture, attacking civilians, and recruiting child soldiers.
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The language used by Islamist and far-right perpetrators is similar; their crimes are similar; the ideologies behind the crimes entail similar components.
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According to IHL [international humanitarian law], such targeted or indiscriminate attacks against civilian objects may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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At the same time, social media became a key source for uncovering war crimes, disinformation campaigns, child exploitation, and other crimes and abuses.
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Police say the number of reported crimes fell in 123 compared to the previous year, though they admit that many crimes go unreported.
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What's especially interesting about this case, though, is that its also part of a trend towards investigating food safety crimes as, well, crimes.
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" Representative Val Demings, Democrat, House impeachment manager: "President Trump's constitutional crimes, his crimes against the American people and the nation, remain in progress.
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Germany has some of the best-developed institutions in the world for investigating and prosecuting such crimes, including a specialised war-crimes unit.
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The other part of the suit -- claims that he committed "war crimes" -- cannot because those alleged crimes happened outside of the United States.
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Cohen currently is serving a three-year prison term for those crimes, as well as for financial crimes and for lying to Congress.
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He said that the siege and bombing there constituted "crimes of historic proportions" that have caused heavy civilian casualties amounting to war crimes.
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Bashir, who took power in a 1989 coup, is accused of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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" These include attacks on innocents, rape, arbitrary detentions and abductions, all of which "may amount to war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
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A U.N. commission of inquiry found that Christian militias under Yekatom had carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting Muslims.
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Police need witnesses and cooperation from the community to solve crimes, including murders, and therefore build legitimacy that can help prevent future crimes.
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The commission's preliminary report said last month that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its response.
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"The Nigerian authorities must investigate or make public their previous investigations on war crimes and crimes against humanity in the northeast," she added.
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All captured ISIS fighters should be investigated for genocide crimes, including crimes of rape, abduction and sexual slavery against Yazidi women and girls.
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"These crimes have undermined the development of children, and these crimes have disturbed our sense of peace, security and public order," he said.
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Notably, the bill also extends the power to state crimes that are equivalent to any of the federal crimes listed in the bill.
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The recent report reveals a nearly 383% increase in hate crimes against blacks from 2014 data, which cited 1,621 anti-black hate crimes.
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Beirich compares the spike in race-biased hate crimes after Obama was elected to the surge of crimes after the tumultuous 2016 election.
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Trump has been involved in three war crimes cases, granting clemency to three warfighters accused or convicted of murder and other war crimes.
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There are many reasons, political and otherwise, why certain crimes may not be reported as hate crimes when they empirically or arguably are.
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It also prohibits expansion of American military assistance until reforms take place and requires reporting on crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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Cohen, who last year was sentenced to prison for financial crimes and campaign finance violations, accused Trump of taking part in multiple crimes.
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Radovan Karadzic, 70, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by a U.N. tribunal today.
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Speaking to the Fox News host Harris Faulkner, Trump complained that the crimes his former lawyer pleaded guilty to weren't crimes after all.
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Al-Bashir is on the International Criminal Court's wanted list for alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Making it more difficult to perpetrate such crimes is a good thing, but it is not the same thing as eliminating such crimes.
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Human crimes are prosecuted based on DNA left at a crime scene, so why not apply that logic and technology to rhino crimes?
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They specified that "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not necessarily crimes on the books but arise from the singular power of the presidency.
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The Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force also helped, the police chief said, which is part of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force.
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War crimes inquiry: The International Criminal Court in The Hague today allowed an investigation into allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan to proceed.
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That includes violent crimes, any two crimes that have a combined sentence of more than five years, and any drug offense, among others.
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The principle serves as the basis for a state to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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"While the authorities were investigating Zhu's suspected securities crimes, they also look at other suspected cases of economic crimes involving Zhu," police said.
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You hand over surveillance footage of the crimes, accompanied with clear videos of these crimes recorded by numerous cable news networks as well.
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The United States has accused the Russians in question of specific crimes and sought their extradition and arrest with regard to those crimes.
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At the time, Ali was being investigated by an International Crimes Tribunal and was sentenced to death in 2014 for crimes against humanity.
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These are not "thought crimes," but in the nature of attempt-like crimes where an intent and an act towards completion have occurred.
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It also exemplifies the tendency of those arbiters to amplify "perfect crimes" that advance their political agenda — and to ignore crimes that don't.
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A pattern of crimes and the police response Police officials and de Blasio faced questions Thursday about crimes in and around the park.
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Trump can't fire state prosecutors or pardon state crimes, and state criminal law covers many of the underlying alleged crimes in these investigations.
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Between 20093 and 2006, the number of violent crimes fell by more than 34 percent and less than 2,700 violent crimes were reported.
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Together, those two types of hate crimes made up nearly one in five of all hate crimes reported by the FBI in 25.
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In 2009, former President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded a federal hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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The FBI's information shows that crimes motivated by race or ethnicity, which rose 2100% in 2100, accounted for a majority of all incidents reported, with hate crimes specifically targeting African-Americans representing the greatest share, while anti-Arab hate crimes increased 2000%.
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A 2007 Human Rights Watch report determined that sex offender registries do not prevent sex offenders from committing future sex crimes; data show that the best way to prevent crimes — particularly sex crimes — is to promote stability and security for past offenders.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal upheld on Wednesday the convictions of six Bosnian Croats found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1990s, in the court's last verdict before it closes next month.
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War crimes: A U.N. court raised the sentence of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, from 40 years to life in prison for his role in the Bosnian war, reaffirming his conviction on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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He started a Career Criminal Program to go after the repeat offenders who commit a disproportionate share of crimes, and added the nation's first sex crimes unit, a unit for gun crimes and a branch office in Harlem, then a hotbed of crime.
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Rape and domestic abuse — crimes in which women are the common victims — weren't treated as serious crimes on a national scale until the 2250s.
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She said, for instance, that most hate crimes are low-level — the kinds of crimes that police and prosecutors may not pay attention to.
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ICC judges earlier this month ordered Bemba&aposs interim release, days after he was acquitted on appeal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Researchers focused on three types of crimes where black people were more likely than whites to be exonerated: murder, sexual assault and drug crimes.
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It expanded a federal hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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Nonetheless, more than 1,000 hate crimes against the LGBTQ community are reported annually, and the numbers of those crimes are still on the rise.
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"Afro-Swedes are most exposed to hate crimes, and reports of Afrophobic hate crimes have increased by 24 percent since 2008," the report said.
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Having compassion for #MarkSalling in no way minimizes his crimes, nor does it minimize the pain and devastation of the victims of those crimes.
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The trial is seen as a test case for the court's International Crimes Division, one of the first domestic war-crimes courts in Africa.
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War crimes The Houthis and Saleh, it needs to be repeated, are almost certainly committing war crimes in Yemen, according to human rights groups.
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Other testing will also be conducted "to try to tie the individual to crimes or eliminate him from potentially from other crimes," McDonnell said.
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It's also that hateful posts, even by those who never commit crimes, create an environment where those crimes are encouraged, accepted, and even celebrated.
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Parenthetically, I recently argued in a column that criminals who post videos of their crimes online should be subject to additional crimes or penalties.
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"The 720 days Ethan Couch served for his crimes shows that drunk driving homicides still aren't treated as the violent crimes that they are."
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The jury in Charleston deliberated for 2 hours before returning the guilty verdict on all charges ... including hate crimes, religious obstruction and firearm crimes.
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Last year Internet crimes netted the perpetrators $445 billion, with tax fraud as a primary focus, according to IBM Security, which monitors cyber crimes.
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The function of law enforcement is to uncover past crimes, not to provide citizens the opportunity to commit new crimes by testing their veracity.
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Before 2001, crimes motivated by ethnicity made up a little more than 10%, on average, of the total number of single-biased hate crimes.
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Several African leaders and other critics say the court — tasked with prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide — has disproportionately focused on Africa.
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Law enforcement is able to arrest or identify a likely perpetrator for only 2628 percent of property crimes and 28503 percent of violent crimes.
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The indictment contains the same collateral crimes used against every person who is not Russian charged by Mueller with false statements or unrelated crimes.
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Hate crimes targeting Muslims are up from 12 to 25, and hate crimes targeting Jews are up from 102 to 111, the police said.
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But the problems involved with policing knife crimes were "much more diverse" than with gun crimes, Mr. Bratton said, because knives were more pervasive.
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Police rely on not only the willingness of immigrant victims to report crimes, but also on immigrant witnesses and community members to fight crimes.
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The court is the world's first international tribunal with permanent jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
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Despite clear evidence that hate crimes are on the rise, conservative commentators often insist that reports of hate crimes are either exaggerated or false.
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The contrast in sentencing for these white-collar crimes compared to much longer sentences for crimes committed by less privileged Americans is well established.
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Reported crimes targeting black people because of their race increased by 33 percent, while anti-Semitic hate crimes rose 22 percent, the police said.
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Take, for instance, harsh mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug crimes, which can require courts to impose decades in prison for nonviolent drug crimes.
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Despite significantly fewer violent crimes — including murder — than there were a quarter century ago, the percentage of violent crimes getting solved hasn't really changed.
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Mr. Bashir was indicted in 2009 and 2010 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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The court ordered Mr. Bashir in 2009 to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and judges added the genocide charges later.
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The ICC only has jurisdiction in cases where a country's government is itself unable or unwilling to prosecute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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War crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban and its affiliated networks would also be a target of investigation, the report said.
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She's also a journalist and sought-after child safety activist who founded an eponymous foundation focused on sex crimes and internet crimes against children.
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Roof was charged with hate crimes in federal court, but not in state court because South Carolina does not have a hate crimes law.
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In 2005, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Mr. Kony, a self-proclaimed prophet, for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Impeachment involves "high Crimes and Misdemeanours", threats to the state and violations of public trust that need not be crimes in themselves (see Briefing).
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A life sentence is also envisioned for the killing of a senior state official, acts of terrorism, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Many of the people accused of crimes are young men under 30, a demographic that is most likely to commit crimes, even among Germans.
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The film takes its name from Minority Report, in which police use psychics to predict crimes and arrest people before the crimes are committed.
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In addition to 2014 case which found Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of crimes against humanity, the court also sentenced Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by his alias, Duch, to life imprisonment in 2010, for war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder and torture.
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But remember that Trump can pardon someone only for federal crimes—and what's noteworthy about the underlying crimes in this indictment is that many would also be state crimes in New York, which has been conducting its own investigation into Manafort, in conjunction with Mueller.
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While the FBI's overall count of hate crimes is generally considered a huge underestimate of the total hate crimes in the US, the spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes was big enough, Potok said, to potentially suggest a real shift since at least 2015.
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"This ruling is a landmark in the global fight against impunity for atrocities, including war crimes and crimes against humanity," Kerry said in a statement.
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Watergate and Whitewater - they both specified crimes and they had - they specify the evidence that suspected - made them suspect that the crimes had been committed.
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It matters that people who blow the whistle on crimes and war crimes be defended and not abandoned or portrayed as violent criminals or traitors.
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LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes While sexual orientation and gender identity are covered under hate crimes statutes in federal law, these protections vary from state to state.
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"Police adopt a 'zero tolerance' attitude toward crimes against minors and will severely crack down on such crimes in accordance with law," the statement said.
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In some cases they do admit to some minor crimes, but executives are almost never personally convicted of crimes and no one goes to prison.
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According to the most recent report, hate crimes increased 17% in 2017 over the previous year, the third straight year reported hate crimes have increased.
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The world leaders (especially those supporting Mr. Assad) are collectively responsible for these crimes against the people of Syria — which are crimes against us all.
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The bulk of far-right attacks in recent years have consisted of anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes targeting foreigners and those who support them.
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The trials were conducted under the complimentary principle of the Rome Statute, and followed the standards for any international war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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War crimes accusations As the strikes in Aleppo have continued, killing hundreds of civilians, Western powers have accused Assad and his supporters of war crimes.
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Bones said Kinner, of Los Angeles, has "an extensive criminal record spanning multiple states," including for violent crimes and crimes involving drug and alcohol abuse.
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According to the tally, 22016,213 hate crimes were committed in 220 (compared to 5,850 in 2015) and over half of the crimes were racially motivated.
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The hate crime designations work best for prosecutors trying property crimes or non-violent crimes because it takes less to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin lowers the minimum mandatory sentence for non-violent, drug-related crimes, while also enhancing penalties for several serious violent crimes.
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Prosecutors recommended life in prison during closing arguments to the court this week if Habre is convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture.
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In 2014, 85033 percent of deportations were related to crimes, and in 2011, only 67 percent were related to crimes, according to a DHS report.
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"Faceless multinational corporations don't commit crimes; flesh and blood people commit crimes," U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q Yates told a news conference in Washington.
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Bashir is wanted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court on charges of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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"The nature of these crimes are administrative crimes," said Oscar Vilhena Vieira, a constitutional law professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas, a university in São Paulo.
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By the end of 1986, some eighteen former and present Rajneeshees had been convicted of crimes in Oregon; another ten charged with crimes remained fugitives.
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Apparently Trump believes the attorney general is there to protect him from his own possible crimes and even from investigations looking into those possible crimes.
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The United Nations has called for an investigation into Myanmar's military leaders for committing crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide against the Rohingya people.
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Property crimes also increased, including a nearly 12 percent increase in shoplifting and nearly 11 percent increase in thefts, two crimes affected by Proposition 47.
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Clint Williamson served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues under Presidents Bush and Obama and earlier as an international war crimes prosecutor.
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But I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.
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The case was noteworthy for being part of a transnational effort to hold people accountable for crimes against humanity, no matter where those crimes occurred.
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But it also shows the limits of policy responses to hate crimes, which are often focused on making prison sentences for such crimes even longer.
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Argentina's constitution recognizes universal jurisdiction for war crimes and torture, meaning judicial authorities can investigate and prosecute those crimes no matter where they were committed.
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In 2015, law enforcement agencies reported 1,219 hate crimes against gays and lesbians and 118 hate crimes against those who were trans and gender nonconforming.
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Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace time, but the idea that victims live in peace is only a callous technicality.
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It was meant to be a one-stop shop to try the most powerful perpetrators of the worst violations: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide.
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Many of the crimes that trigger removal as crimes-of-violence are specifically referenced elsewhere in the INA and will continue to result in deportations.
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The International Criminal Court is supposed to step in if national courts don't bring to justice perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Protesters fear such a maneuver would allow China to arbitrarily detain people accused of crimes, though it's not entirely clear what those crimes would be.
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A United Nations commission of inquiry found that Christian militias under Mr. Yekatom had carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting Muslims.
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Sergeant Lewis said he could not provide details about how the two crimes were connected, or whether the same person was suspected of both crimes.
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The court, which opened in 2002, was envisioned as the world's permanent judicial body for cases of war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity.
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" The Constitution says presidents can be impeached for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors," but it does not define "high crimes and misdemeanors.
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The United Nations has warned of summary executions and other crimes that might amount to crimes against humanity, an assertion that Mr. Nkurunziza has rejected.
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Racial and ethnic bias continued to be the largest motivators for hate crimes in the U.S., driving 2900 percent of the total hate crimes reported.
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The group said the south Florida city, with a population of 31,507, had only seven reported violent crimes and 186 property crimes the previous year.
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"The uptick of hate crimes or bias-motivated crimes this last year can be likened to the national climate, mood and discord," Mr. Haley said.
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The governor's office said a majority of the immigrants, who had all been convinced of crimes, were responsible for drug-related or other nonviolent crimes.
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Government blames militants for violence Monday's report called for Myanmar's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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A 2011 UN report found credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both sides during the final stages of the fighting.
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"Faceless multinational corporations don't commit crimes; flesh and blood people commit crimes," U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q Yates told a news conference in Washington.
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The overall number of violent crimes on the subway is down since this time last year, but some crimes, including robberies, are on the rise.
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Grisly crimes often get prominent play, and Fox News personalities frequently fault the rest of the media for downplaying crimes by minorities against white victims.
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A lot of times, crimes committed against homeless people involve other categories that are covered under hate crimes, like race or ethnicity or sexual orientation.
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Trump did finally tweet about Cohen Wednesday, offering a poor review of his services and claiming the crimes he pleaded guilty to were not crimes.
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Nine Congolese soldiers were tried for war crimes and three employees of Australia's Anvil Mining were tried for complicity in war crimes over the killings.
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As Lopez pointed out, the number of crimes formally charged as hate crimes and the number of incidents perceived as hate crimes by members of victims' communities vary wildly: The FBI reports between 6,33 and 10,000 hate crimes annually, while a survey-based approach by the US Bureau of Justice statistics focusing on victim perception suggests the number could be as high as 260,000.
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It should come as no surprise, then, that the most common crimes among the pay-to-stay population are not assaults or sex crimes (4.5% combined).
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But the FBI report always misses a lot of crimes, too, since it only picks up crimes that are detected by and reported to the police.
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Earlier this summer, an independent United Nations investigation declared that Myanmar's military leaders should be investigated and charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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The database is maintained by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, a bank regulator charged with combatting money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes.
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At the Nuremberg trials in 1946, 24 Nazi leaders had faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity—mass-enslavement, murder, conspiracy, persecution and more.
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According to the FBI's data, about 57 percent of reported hate crimes are crimes against persons, such as murder, rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, and intimidation.
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As the country grapples with starvation, mass displacement and allegations of war crimes, the increased insecurity has led to porous borders and impunity for trafficking crimes.
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Ekeland thinks that courts treat many "hacker" crimes as unduly threatening, however, compared to non-computer crimes that cause financial damage — or bad behavior by companies.
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The commission has compiled a list of names of those it suspects of carrying out war crimes and crimes against humanity over the past five years.
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The instructions do not distinguish between violent crimes and more minor infractions, such as traffic offences or immigration crimes, which include crossing into America without permission.
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The option to livestream crimes-in-progress or report crimes to other users still exists—both of which have plenty of potential to be used dangerously.
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Brody, nicknamed the "dictator hunter", helped victims of Chad's Hissene Habre jail their former president for life last year for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Amnesty said the international community had failed to respond robustly to "crimes against humanity and war crimes from Myanmar to Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen".
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"We are talking here about criminal activities, about crimes against the civilians," Merkel said, although she did not echo Hollande's use of the phrase "war crimes".
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And the FBI report always misses a lot of crimes too, since it only picks up crimes that are detected by and reported to the police.
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" Congress, he suggested, would not have meant to delegate to the courts the question of whether Dimaya's crimes rose to the level of "crimes of violence.
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The White House has insisted that Manafort's crimes had nothing to do with Trump, and maintained that his crimes are unrelated to potential collusion with Russia.
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German prosecutors last year issued an international arrest warrant for the head of Syrian Air force Intelligence on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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At the end of the trial, a three-judge panel convicted Eichmann of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other offenses, and sentenced him to death.
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The NO HATE Act will serve as a vital tool in the fight against hate crimes by improving how law enforcement agencies track and report crimes.
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Bosco Ntaganda faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by his troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-2003.
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The FBI's annual Hate Crimes Statistics report found that in 2014, 20.4% — or just over 1,100 — hate crimes were based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Our psychotic culture has entire television shows dedicated to the investigation of sexual crimes, which are judged to be more heinous than crimes of other sorts.
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Ring's attendant app, Neighbors, lets people in a given community report crimes and share footage of those crimes (spoiler: it's mainly of people stealing Amazon packages).
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They also documented mass executions and torture of prisoners abducted by the Nusra Front and Islamic State they say constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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In 2018, hate crimes in New York City rose by 5 percent; anti-Semitic crimes alone rose 22 percent last year compared with the year before.
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" Barbara Coloroso, author of "The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander," said: "It's a short walk from hateful rhetoric, to hate crimes to crimes against humanity.
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Trump claimed he "did nothing wrong with respect to campaign finance laws" and that the campaign finance crimes Cohen pleaded guilty to weren't even actual crimes.
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Victims of hate crimes often do not believe that reporting their crime will help their situation, and that contributes to why many hate crimes remain unreported.
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A government report released two weeks ago showed that while politically motivated crimes were down generally in Germany, anti-Semitic crimes were up by 20 percent.
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The lawsuit initially included war crimes and crimes against humanity charges, but those were dismissed by June 2017, leaving the remaining two charges, Ms. Roberts said.
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In books, law journals, seminars and reports from conflict areas, Mr. Bassiouni elaborated on definitions of the gravest international crimes, including crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Last year, Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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The court takes cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when a nation's judicial system is unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute them.
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Most of these suspects are accused of committing nonviolent crimes like shoplifting, not paying child support, and traffic offenses — though some are accused of violent crimes.
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U.N. investigators last month said they had identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Andrew Cuomo's proposed Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act, which would elevate penalties for violent crimes committed by white supremacists and create a domestic terror task force.
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United States attorneys are responsible for prosecuting terrorism offenses, serious financial fraud, public corruption, crimes related to gang activity, drug trafficking and all other federal crimes.
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In 1994, she helped win the first federal mandate that all states create a database of people convicted of violent sex crimes or crimes against children.
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In March 85033, Omar al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court on five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes.
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Last September the ICC prosecutor opened a preliminary examination into whether alleged forced deportations of Rohingya from Myanmar could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Crime falls, mostly: New York remained the nation's safest big city in 2018 as most major crimes dropped, but hate crimes and reported rapes are up.
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Reported hate crimes rose by about 5 percent in 2018, with sharper increases in crimes targeting black people, up 33 percent, and Jews, up 22 percent.
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Anti-Semitic crimes made up almost two-thirds of that, for a total of 36 crimes reported so far this year, compared with 433 last year.
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But some crimes violate state and federal law — for example, someone can commit a murder (state crime) that also violates federal hate crimes law (federal crime).
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But they have this way of seeing the world where they think what they do best is commit crimes, and they get honor by committing crimes.
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Doleac and Mukherjee also find that naloxone access laws lead to more opioid-related crimes, arguing that people commit crimes to fund their riskier drug use.
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This compounds the problem: First, hate crimes are less likely to be acknowledged in these districts, which creates an unsafe space for vulnerable individuals; secondly, since the crimes aren't reported even if they occur, areas with high rates of hate crimes may be overlooked by the FBI.
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And it's also not just about Trump; around the country, police work hand-in-hand with far-right politicians orchestrating crackdowns on immigrants, harsher penalties for crimes, and so-called "blue lives matter" bills that make crimes against police equivalent to crimes against marginalized and oppressed groups.
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"There are already 52 federal crimes of terrorism that apply to entirely domestic acts, five federal hate crimes statutes that address the bias crimes often committed by white supremacists commit ... and dozens of other statutes that can and have been used to prosecute domestic terrorists," he said.
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In 2012, Romania removed its statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, opening up the possibility of prosecuting those whose crimes dated back more than 40 years.
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It included a federal "three strike" provision mandating life imprisonment for certain felons convicted of violent crimes, and expanded the death penalty to include 19943 additional crimes.
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Thirty-six states have hate crimes laws listing disability to some degree, but that doesn't mean they are actually using the laws actively in disability-related crimes.
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Criticism of Syrian 'war crimes' President Putin's directive also follows suggestions from French President Francois Hollande last month that Moscow was guilty of war crimes in Syria.
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Arya wielded the knife, but it was Sansa who passed the judgment, and who listed Littlefinger's crimes much as she once listed the crimes committed against her.
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The ICC said earlier this month it had begun an examination of whether the alleged forced deportations of Rohingya could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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The majority of off-campus cops arrested were charged with "violence-related" crimes, such as assault or murder, or "profit-related crimes," like stealing money or drugs.
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And going after them is really where you'll hopefully stop these crimes, make connections to other crimes, and make more of a difference, catch the bad guys.
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Farook is unquestionably guilty of despicable crimes and may have information on his phone that can lead investigators to other people that helped him commit those crimes.
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Mladic was tried on 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for allegedly overseeing atrocities by Serb forces in Bosnia&aposs 1992-95 war.
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"What you're seeing is this insane disconnect between the [criminal] consequences of certain crimes and convictions, and the immigration consequences for [those same crimes]," Paulos told VICE.
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" He said these violations constitute "war crimes," and "if knowingly committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against civilians, they constitute crimes against humanity.
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They received U visas — a visa given to people who have been victims of crimes and are willing to help law enforcement investigate and prosecute those crimes.
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Role of Assad The conflict in Syria has entered its seventh year, and continues to be characterized by appalling war crimes, crimes against humanity and chemical weapons.
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In a tweet, the president's attorney denied saying what the Daily Beast quoted him as saying, clarifying that his position is that campaign finance crimes aren't crimes.
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There was the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which added sexual orientation and gender identity to federal hate crimes protections in 22016.
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Last year the FBI released statistics showing an alarming spike in the number of reported hate crimes -- in particular a 67% increase in crimes against Muslim Americans.
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Photo: Milos Bicanski (Getty)If you're going to commit crimes in public, it's probably smart to secure anything on your person that connects you to other crimes.
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"Hate crimes are violent crimes, but also attack the fundamental principles of the United States," said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore in a statement in August.
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Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has requested authorization for a formal investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, according to NPR.
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International rights groups often complain that constitutional safeguards on political crimes are ignored as defendants are charged with crimes against national security and tried behind closed doors.
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In fact, crimes against police officers are treated as among the most heinous criminal acts, given the high degree of culpability and punishment attached to such crimes.
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The defense may claim there are no witnesses to the alleged sexual crimes, and the victims are not credible because they didn't promptly report the alleged crimes.
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The ICC was established in 85033 to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after human rights groups and other nongovernment organizations pushed for its creation.
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The Watergate cover-up was inevitable -- because of the enormity of his crimes as president -- and thus the cover-up was almost the least of his crimes.
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So far he has had to charge potential witnesses with crimes that bear little or no relationship to any possible crimes committed by current White House incumbents.
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In 2008, the same year Obama was elected, there were 2,876 anti-black hate crimes reported, nearly 37% of the total number of hate crimes that year.
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He faces 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity relating to two attacks against the non-Hema population in Congo's Ituri province.
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These included all juveniles, irrespective of their crimes, as well as some men not serving time for serious crimes like murder, armed robbery, treason, rape or carjacking.
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Many of the crimes against women and children have also been hate crimes against Dalits and minorities, argues Kavita Krishnan, secretary of All India Progressive Women's Association.
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Haradinaj, who twice stood trial before the United Nations war crimes court for war crimes and was acquitted, briefly held the post of prime minister in 2005.
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Surge in anti-Semitic crimes and other issues Shea will face a climate where police say there has been a rise in reported anti-Semitic hate crimes.
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The trial, which ended on Monday, was the first in Iraq to specifically address the Islamic State's crimes against the Yazidis — or at least one militant's crimes.
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Manafort's sentence points to the gulf between how white collar crimes and street-level offenses — especially small-time drug crimes — are handled in the U.S. justice system.
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"Researchers find that people serving time for violent crimes typically consume less media before committing their crimes than the average person in the general population," he wrote.
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The part of the deal to which he is most hostile is the "transitional justice" tribunal, called the JEP, which investigates war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Suspects would not be extradited for political crimes or other matters not considered crimes in Hong Kong; the change would not result in extradition for such matters.
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Mr. Howe's cooperation agreement with the government requires him to admit all previous crimes and commit no additional crimes, something that may put that agreement in jeopardy.
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For example, since the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose by so much in proportion to all hate crimes, there probably is something going on there.
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Since the feds don't have the resources to prosecute all anti-LGBTQ hate crimes as hate crimes, that can leave many of these incidents uninvestigated and unpunished.
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The F.B.I. reports that hate crimes in the United States jumped 17 percent in 2017, with a 37 percent spike in crimes against Jews and Jewish institutions.
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"Cutting through the legal jargon, we have three federal hate crimes, three what you would refer to as federal firearms offenses or 'gun crimes,'" Mr. Coleman said.
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According to prosecutors, both were campaign finance violations — federal crimes — and now a judge has sentenced Cohen to three years in prison for that and other crimes.
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People found guilty of crimes may also be ordered by a court to pay restitution to their victims and perhaps to pay fines related to their crimes.
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Research is clear: most people don't jump right to violent crimes, and if you give someone the help that they need, they don't progress to violent crimes.
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Prosecutors will need to work closely with refugees who have evidence of genocide, including raw footage that can help prove crimes or corroborate other evidence of crimes.
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Since Trump was elected president, hate crimes against Latinos have increased: In 22017, an FBI report showed that reports of such crimes grew by 24% in 2017.
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Of the 2000 right-wing offenders with outstanding warrants, 22011 are wanted for crimes classified as violent and 22013 are wanted for crimes classified as politically motivated.
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The office heading up the investigation is in charge of crimes against the freedom of expression, tasked with looking into crimes against journalists and human rights defenders.
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This is a country that can barely count the number of murders, let alone other crimes, let alone the evidentiary standards related to smartphones related to crimes.
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Practices that were once crimes, like fornication and adultery, or that are still crimes, like incest, infanticide, and rape, generally lie outside the scope of his concern.
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The last testimony jurors heard in the prosecutors' case against Manafort came from financial crimes special agent Paula Liss of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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Bemba, a former Democratic Republic of Congo vice-president, is the first person that the global war crimes court has held directly responsible for his subordinates' crimes.
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In late 2017, the ICC's chief prosecutor requested authorization to launch an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity purportedly committed by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.
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He campaigned on the principle that he would either order war crimes to be committed, or else give U.S. soldiers more latitude to commit war crimes themselves.
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They argued that Shkreli lacked "genuine remorse" for his crimes and had a pattern of deceptive schemes spanning even after the crimes for which he was convicted.
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The office also began working on issues tied to hate crimes in 2009, after Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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Last month one of them, Bosco Ntaganda, who is known as "The Terminator", was sentenced to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The move is meant to deter a potential investigation by the judicial body into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by US troops in Afghanistan.
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"The Assad regime is responsible for innumerable atrocities some of which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity," Pompeo told a news conference.
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The report only measures crimes reported to the FBI, so, as the FBI cautioned, the increase might not mean the number of hate crimes rose in 2017.
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It would also equate crimes of online defamation that result in death to the far-more serious category of "heinous crimes" — for which bail cannot be granted.
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But even if people don't call 911, those crimes will still happen, and individuals will still have to deal with those crimes — just on their own terms.
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Meanwhile, less than half of violent crimes and less than one-fifth of property crimes that are reported are actually cleared by police and referred to prosecution.
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And it's outrageous that African Americans are four times more likely to be convicted of drug crimes, even though they have no difference in committing drug crimes.
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Judges rejected the request for the second genocide conviction, but upheld his conviction on all other war crimes and crimes against humanity charges including persecution and murder.
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Their invitees are people who have faced violence or crimes from undocumented immigrants, though the idea that undocumented immigrants commit more crimes has been frequently debunked. Sen.
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"The international community is obliged to protect populations subjected to atrocity crimes by their own governments and ensure justice and accountability for such crimes," the report said.
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"Such a referral would be more than justified given the rampant and deeply shocking impunity that has characterized the conflict and the magnitude of the crimes that have been committed, some of which may indeed amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity," Zeid said in a statement.
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Habré, au pouvoir de juin 231 à décembre 210, est poursuivi, entre autres, pour de nombreux crimes de guerre et crimes contre l'humanité commis contre ses opposants politiques.
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FIFA allowed one of the coveted seats to be given to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
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"It seems that financial crimes or fraud are treated more seriously than violent crimes against women," Rachel Horman, a lawyer and board director at a women's shelter, said.
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The indictment does not accuse Pike of specific crimes; instead, it places him at the top of the Bandidos and alleges he benefited from the crimes of others.
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On June 29 in Washington, DC, Sessions convened a Hate Crimes Summit and pledged to enforce hate crimes laws — including the one he voted against enacting in 2009.
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The suspect in France was arrested on Tuesday near Paris on suspicion of committing torture, crimes against humanity and war crimes between 2011 and 2013, Paris prosecutors said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.N. investigators said on Friday they had identified more than 40 South Sudanese military officers who may be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"Some of these violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity and must be immediately investigated by Israel," said panel chair Santiago Canton, an Argentine legal expert.
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No nationwide data on crimes by law enforcement Stinson says little is known about crimes committed by law enforcement in part because no official nationwide data is collected.
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Crimes for which the statute had not expired on June 23, 2006, were included when the law changed, meaning crimes as early as 2001 can still be prosecuted.
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"Hate crimes are hate crimes," said Joe Smith, 65, from North Carolina, adding that law enforcement needs to do a better job of monitoring social media for threats.
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Other special war crimes or genocide tribunals, such as those in former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Cambodia, were only created for the specific areas where those crimes took place.
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Fewer gun cases than crimes What is not disputed is that federal prosecutors bring far fewer cases against gun crimes than the amount of crime suggests they could.
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The International Criminal Court last week said it had begun an examination of whether the alleged forced deportations of Rohingya could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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Those are crimes committed by the Russians and now we know that at a minimum, (Trump campaign staff) were encouraging them to use the fruits of those crimes.
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They also seek the decriminalization of drug-related crimes, and want those convicted of such crimes to be released and have that aspect of their criminal records erased.
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As it turns out, DNA data collected from arrested (but not convicted) people can also solve crimes, while storing that data can also assist in solving future crimes.
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The FBI on Tuesday released its annual hate crime data report, which showed a slight decline in hate crimes last year but an increase in violent hate crimes.
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The ICC is an international court set up in 2002 to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity when member states are unable or unwilling to do so.
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"The public doesn't see it as an issue because we don't have the number of crimes we did in Vietnam, and the crimes aren't as bad," he said.
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The former army officer is wanted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court on charges of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during Sudan's Darfur conflict.
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While bias-related property crimes were down, physical assaults were up, accounting for 61 percent of the 7,120 incidents classified as hate crimes by law enforcement officials nationwide.
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A Special Criminal Court, established in 2015 to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in Central African Republic since 2003, is also expected to start operating soon.
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The Mueller investigation has become an all-out assault to find crimes to pin on them — and it won't matter if there are no crimes to be found.
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Tracking hate crimes against Muslims Three years after Shepard's death, in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, a wave of anti-Islamic hate crimes surfaced.
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They are more likely to commit to property crimes such as larceny theft and fraud, as well as drug offenses and crimes, including possession and trafficking, than men.
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We soon should know who Manafort tried to protect, what crimes those people committed with Manafort (or to Manafort's knowledge), and what proof Mueller has of those crimes.
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"After the FBI and Department of Justice whitewash of the Clinton email crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clinton's crimes," Trump said.
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"It included the focus on the war crimes facing Khan al-Ahmar, specifically the crimes of forceable displacement, ethnic cleansing and destruction of civilian property," Erekat told reporters.
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Harvey Weinstein might dodge prosecution on sex crimes, but he could still get nailed for financial crimes tied to settlement money he's paid alleged victims over the years.
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A UN fact-finding report has called for top military leaders in Myanmar to be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Rohingya people.
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We urge an immediate halt to the creation of new 'crimes' and a bipartisan presidential commission to purge the Code and the body of regulation of old 'crimes.
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The failure to reform forensic science can allow innocent individuals to be punished for crimes they did not commit while actual perpetrators remain free to commit other crimes.
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Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance crimes that included payments during the campaign to silence the women alleging affairs -- crimes that prosecutors say Trump directed Cohen to commit.
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Overall, the FBI says, hate crimes are up 4.6 percent across the board in 2016, marking the first back-to-back annual increases in hate crimes since 2004.
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Overall reported anti-Semitic crimes in Germany increased by nearly 20 percent last year to 303,799, while violent anti-Semitic crimes rose by about 86 percent, to 69.
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Some crimes are not represented fully or at all: acts of domestic violence, sexual assaults, identity thefts, hate crimes, and shootings that don't result in injuries or damage.
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The tribunal had recently been created to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes throughout the world, and apparently he felt that it threatened the United States.
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According to its website, the court is currently investigating 11 "situations," the bulk of them in sub-Saharan Africa, involving allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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At a trial in The Hague in 2012, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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INCARCERATE THE RIGHT PEOPLE - Lower risk individuals who are unlikely to commit future crimes will become more likely to commit future crimes when incarcerated with higher risk individuals!
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"Jack simply had thoughts about committing these crimes, wrote in his journal about committing the crimes, wrote his fantasy plans, and he purchased a gun," Ms. Green said.
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Having a larger proportion of DNA from some groups means it's more likely that crimes that group commits are solved, even if they're not committing more crimes overall.
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He was charged with hate crimes in federal court, but not in state court because South Carolina does not have a hate crimes law on the state level.
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Hate crimes were up 43.1% in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, according to the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes.
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Pattern of crimes Police officials and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced questions about the pattern of crimes in and around the park in Thursday's news conference.
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FBI statistics from November show that anti-Muslim hate crimes went up by 14 percent between 85033 and 2014, even as hate crimes across the board went down.
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By focusing on low-level crimes in so-called unkempt neighborhoods — with vandalism, loitering, and drug offenses — police departments theorized they could prevent bigger crimes from happening there.
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Women are also far more likely to be convicted of crimes that never occurred―that is, accidents or misfortunes mistaken for crimes, like suicides judged to be homicides.
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In cases where a suspect had been identified, crimes committed by non-Germans were down by 2.7 percent, while crimes committed by Germans were down by 2.2 percent.
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Citizen — whose previous form was called Vigilante and which appeared to encourage users to stop crimes in action — sends users 2000-220-1 alerts for crimes happening nearby.
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Normally, a federal grand jury of as many as 23 people sits for a year or 18 months hearing all kinds of crimes: murders, white-collar crimes, etc.
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Moreover, youth who participated in the program were 44 percent less likely to commit future crimes than those whose crimes were addressed through the county's juvenile justice system.
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The FBI reported a nearly 7 percent rise in hate crimes in 2015, driven in large part by a 67 percent increase in reported hate crimes against Muslims.
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" Sessions, who first publicly proclaimed his intent to prosecute hate crimes against transgender individuals in a June speech, noted that "hate crimes are violent crimes" and that he had met "personally" with leaders of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division "to discuss a spate of murders around the country of transgender individuals.
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When we view the war on drugs strictly though the lens of drug possession, we fail to include people who need help the most: those who have committed crimes driven by their addiction and/or mental health disorder and who face incarceration as a result (crimes including D.U.I., theft, property crimes).
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According to the decree on the government's website, a general amnesty has been granted to all those convicted of political crimes, and those currently being processed for similar crimes.
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But judges at the UN war crimes court at The Hague (ICTY) said Seselj bore no individual responsibility for the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing that took place.
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"It is important that the victims of these crimes understand that we are behind them and we are going to hold ... people accountable publicly for those crimes," Brady said.
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The number of hate crimes targeting Muslims rose sharply, though more than half the total crimes that were of a religious nature were aimed at Jewish people and centres.
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In this police record, names would be listed beside alleged crimes and alleged attempted crimes — indeed, according to Louisiana's criminal code, an attempted crime against nature could be prosecuted.
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Judicial authorities in countries that recognise universal jurisdiction for serious offences such as war crimes and torture can investigate and prosecute those crimes no matter where they were committed.
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" When asked about the reports of war crimes being committed by Turkish forces, Esper replied, "If accurate, and I assume that they are accurate, they would be war crimes.
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"Adding professional categories to the current Hate Crimes statute deters efforts from protecting against identity-based crimes," Anti-Defamation League Regional Director Allison Padilla-Goodman said in a release.
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The most common crimes committed by immigrants arrested by ICE are non-violent crimes such as DUIs, other traffic violations or immigration-related offenses, which could include illegal entry.
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It also extends the statute of limitations on suing those who perpetrate sex crimes, since it's often hard for children to recognize there had been crimes committed against them.
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According to Variety, NBC has ordered new series Law & Order: Hate Crimes, which will be based on the inner workings of New York's real-life Hate Crimes Task Force.
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"While the ones being incarcerated have committed sometimes very heinous crimes, the crimes of the subjects they are painting have such greater widespread destruction and negative effects," Greenspan said.
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The treaties spell out which crimes are covered (military or political crimes are generally excluded today), the steps each country will take, and the criteria that must be fulfilled.
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The House also passed by voice vote a bill that would sanction the government of Syria, and supporters including Russia and Iran, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The commission did say, however, that Scott was "a person of high integrity" whose leadership has led to a decrease in use of force, violent crimes and property crimes.
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Still, Israel read past the lip service and understood that it would have to pay nothing, not even for acts suspected of being war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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The commission, which was appointed by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, has produced a number of reports chronicling evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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It gave federal prosecutors the legal latitude to charge organized crime family heads with ordering foot soldiers to conduct crimes, and foot soldiers for merely participating in said crimes.
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For example, maybe greater awareness of anti-Muslim attitudes led victims to report more hate crimes to the police and police to report more hate crimes to the FBI.
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Opened in July 2002, the ICC, which has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Haradinaj is accused by Serbia of war crimes dating back to the Kosovo conflict of the 1990s, but Haradinaj has been acquitted twice of war crimes at the Hague.
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The Syrian government has practiced a policy of "extermination" against thousands of detainees, and is guilty of other crimes against humanity and war crimes, UN-appointed investigators have found.
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As former federal sex crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta explains: Do not for a minute think this sex crimes prosecutor is trying to find the truth about a sex crime.
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Today, the U.S. population has more than tripled and the FBI has had counterintelligence, organized crime, sophisticated financial crimes, counterterrorism, drug trafficking and cyber crimes heaped onto its plate.
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Reports of hate crimes in the U.S. rose for the third straight year, according to and FBI report, with racial and ethnic bias the largest motivator for hate crimes.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that attacks based on the victim's sexual orientation constituted nearly 20% of all hate crimes in 2014—second only to racially motivated crimes.
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Mr. Seselj was charged with three counts of crimes against humanity and six of war crimes in the ethnic cleansing for his role in mobilizing and motivating his followers.
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" When examining thefts by poor people, he said, "usually the court classifies these cases as smaller crimes, but crimes, as poverty is considered avoidable through the social support system.
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After those conflicts, human rights groups began pushing for a permanent international criminal court to hold accountable and prosecute anyone responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Cotton has focused on the most sensational crimes, like sexual violence, while ignoring all the built-in safeguards that make people convicted of such crimes ineligible to earn credits.
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They paint what could even be called ethnographic portraits of societies in which particular kinds of crimes consistently appear and of the people who tend to commit those crimes.
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Many victims do not report the crimes and even if they do, police departments often apply different criteria for tracking and reporting the crimes internally and to the FBI.
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Wide range of potential crimes under examination Legal experts say there could be several crimes at play, including violations of bribery statutes as well as tax and wire laws.
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In the 2015-16 school year, the number of major crimes in schools reached its lowest level since 1998, when the Police Department began tracking data on such crimes.
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Lawyers for Nashiri argued that the military commissions only have the authority to try cases for crimes committed during a war and that Nashiri's actions were not war crimes.
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Chris Pogue is a member of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.
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Rioting under the hate crimes law would come with stiffer felony penalties, while inciting to riot under the hate crimes law would become a felony (up from a misdemeanor).
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And the crimes for which Michael Cohen is going to jail aren't crimes after all; they were added to his rap sheet by prosecutors as a dig at Trump.
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Afghanistan The International Criminal Court has authorized an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan by US armed forces, the CIA and the Taliban.
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The official report found that crimes nationwide against those perceived as foreigners increased to 7,701 last year from 6,434 in 2017, and anti-Semitic crimes to 1,153 from 1,504.
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Then there's the president himself, Exhibit A of what happens when a country spends decades treating crimes by the poor as felonies and crimes by the powerful as misdemeanors.
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The official report found that crimes nationwide against those perceived as foreigners increased to 7,701 last year from 6,434 in 2017, and anti-Semitic crimes to 20173,799 from 1,504.
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President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who came to power 27 years ago, is sought by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur.
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Hence the constitutional question: Does a military commission's assumption of federal court jurisdiction over domestic crimes violate the Constitution, which reserves the "trial of all crimes" to the judiciary?
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The extensive legislation adds 38 new crimes to the record, including stealing trade secrets on behalf of a foreign government, and broaden the definitions of existing crimes like espionage.
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Attacks against Jewish people accounted for 28503 percent of crimes motivated by anti-religious bias last year, a 22019-percent increase from 2016, while anti-Muslim crimes were down.
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She acknowledged that he might have committed crimes, but she said that any illegal behavior attributable to him should be outweighed by the crimes he had helped to expose.
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In this particular case, the United States is fully obligated under both the United Nations Charter and Genocide Convention to punish Syrian crimes of war and crimes against humanity.
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Ongwen, who for years was an Lord's Resistance Army commander, faces 70 charges involving war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed from 2002 to 2004 in northern Uganda.
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A U.N. panel concluded that Syrian government forces and their allies committed war crimes and crimes against humanity when they recaptured a suburb of Damascus from rebels this year.
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In 2009, Congress took an important step in arming federal investigators to deal with hate crimes by passing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
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In 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed into federal law, broadening the ability of the federal government to prosecute hate crimes.
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U.N. judges had ordered a five-minute bathroom break for Mladic, 74, before issuing their verdict in his trial for 11 alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity including genocide.
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Since it was set up under the 1998 Rome Statute, the court based in The Hague has focused on prosecuting such politically-motivated crimes as genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The International Criminal Court wants Bashir to face charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide for his campaign against insurgents in the Darfur region between 2003 and 2008.
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There are crimes, like drug trafficking and international gangs, that are specific to undocumented and foreign-born communities, but Chicago's violent crimes have little connection to those issues, he said.
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Police and jail officials would be able to notify U.S. immigration agents if they detain people with convictions for some 800 crimes, including serious felonies, battery, assault and sexual crimes.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A former Bosnian Muslim commander was arrested on Wednesday over alleged war crimes against Serbian civilians during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, the Balkan country's war crimes prosecutor said.
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In the UK in 2014 out of 52,528 hate crimes reported, 82 per cent were based on race, 11 percent on sexual orientation and 1 percent labelled "transgender hate crimes".
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You can get away with multiple crimes, hundreds of crimes as a doctor and nobody would do anything to you, even though they have the same type of malpractice insurance.
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Mr. Habré, who was in power from June 229 to December 22007, stands accused, among other things, of committing numerous crimes against humanity and war crimes against his political opponents.
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The ICC, which sits in The Hague and has 124 member states, is the first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes court, acquitted Gbagbo on crimes against humanity charges in January last year, saying prosecutors had failed to prove any case against him.
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"In mourning the victims today, we also rededicate ourselves to our commitment to preventing hate crimes," Rosenstein said of the announcement, acknowledging that many hate crimes continue to go unreported.
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Ms Fry: Every criminal-justice system has to find some kind of balance between protecting the rights of innocent people falsely accused of crimes and protecting the victims of crimes.
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In 2016, close to 20,000 people were sentenced for drug-related crimes in the U.S. Axios took a look at which drug related crimes were most common in each state.
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But even combining the tallies for "serious violent crimes" and "less serious violent crimes," the checks turned up just 85033,559 records of violent infractions, out of more than 10,000 total.
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While the system refused to autocomplete "Hillary Clinton crimes," it also refused to autocomplete "crimes" after the name of other candidates, and "indictment" was easily autocompleted for all three examples.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Serbian nationalist Vojislav Seselj's acquittal on war crimes charges was "shameful" and a defeat for the U.N. war crimes tribunal, Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic said on Thursday.
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Effectively addressing these civil rights crimes should remain a high priority, but these offenses are subject to very different statutes and investigative practices as compared to atrocity crimes committed abroad.
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But while crimes against property were down, physical assaults against people were up, accounting for 0393 percent of the 7,120 incidents classified as hate crimes by law enforcement officials nationwide.
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Hate crimes against Asian-Americans, African-Americans and Muslims are down in New York, the center said, but reports of anti-Semitic hate crimes are driving the overall total up.
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Part of the funding will also go to the United Nation's International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, which is charged with investigating and prosecuting crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
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The pardons would also have to cover not only the alleged crimes being investigated by Mueller but alleged crimes uncovered by career prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
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The most recent attempt started in 22009, when the current government established two International Crimes Tribunals that together have convicted 21971 people on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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More than 10,000 people were killed, according to the UN; it has called for Myanmar's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The crimes that Mueller has prosecuted were crimes personal to the defendants, not a result of their relationships or official duties with the Trump presidential campaign or Russian election interference.
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Joni Ernst on pardons for soldiers charged with war crimes: "It is not okay to perpetuate war crimes … I would just advise the President to be very careful" #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.
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This can only be good news for the leaders of the Islamic State and other perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity who should be brought to justice.
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Under the Indian Major Crimes Act, federal prosecutors generally have jurisdiction over certain serious crimes when they're committed on a reservation, including the murder of one tribal member by another.
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A further report by the Hate Crimes Working Group found hate crimes against lesbians, gays and bisexuals amounted to 36 percent of the overall number reported between 2013 and 2017.
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"This is the composition of the network and these are the people who have established a clear link between serious crimes and terrorist crimes; they are used to using violence."
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The new law strips voting rights from people who commit any of the specific crimes on the list, which includes crimes such as murder, kidnapping, rape, sexual abuse and terrorism.
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In 2015, Dominic Ongwen, a former L.R.A. commander, became the first member of the rebel group to go before the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The latest F.B.I. statistics corroborate what our researchers found: a 5 percent increase in reported hate crimes, with more than half of faith-based hate crimes — 53 percent — against Jews.
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Now, Taylor is serving out a 50-year jail sentence for aiding and abetting rebels who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone during the civil war.
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Some of these people would most likely have been denaturalized under any administration, including people who were convicted of serious crimes or were discovered to have participated in war crimes.
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Of those, four warranted a criminal investigation as hate crimes, according to Mak Chishty, a former Metropolitan Police investigator in charge of hate crimes who reviewed the documents for LBC.
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In October, Burundi moved to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal responsible for investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first country to do so.
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Congress had narrowly approved the law on Wednesday but opponents criticize that it would allow judges to substantially reduce the sentences of perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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This leaves executives of Nile Petroleum, and potentially other international oil firms, vulnerable to international and possible domestic criminal liability for aiding and abetting war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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In 6900, the ICC in the Hague prosecuted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and issued warrants for his arrest in 2628 and 28503.
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The ICC has the authority to hear cases of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the 123 countries that have signed up to it.
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By contrast, about 53 percent of state prisoners had been imprisoned for violent offenses, while about 16 percent had been convicted of drug crimes and 19 percent for property crimes.
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It also referred incorrectly to the center's research on hate crimes in New York City in 2016; the city saw the largest number of hate crimes, not the largest increase.
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The overall number of recorded crimes rose by 10 percent, the report said, with an 18 percent increase in violent crimes and a 26 percent increase in the murder rate.
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But it is also true that hate crimes have been on the rise for three years, and that three out of five hate crimes in 2017 were motivated by race.
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So hate crimes will probably depend more on overall crime rates and — in the case of Islamophobic hate crimes — on terrorist attacks than on a general atmosphere created by Trump.
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Why it matters: A decision will affect immigrants who are convicted of crimes, especially important as the Trump administration steps up deportations of immigrants who are convicted of small crimes.
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According to a statement from the time, Bensouda's office "determined that there is a reasonable basis to believe" that members of the Afghan National Security Forces, the US armed forces and the CIA had committed "war crimes," and that members of the Taliban had committed both war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"There are already 52 federal crimes of terrorism that apply to entirely domestic acts, five federal hate crimes statutes that address the bias crimes often committed by white supremacists ... and dozens of other statutes that can and have been used to prosecute domestic terrorists," Michael German, a former FBI special agent, told me.
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Kwon encouraged the Philippines to remain a member and "engage in dialogue" rather than withdrawing, which he said would hurt the court's efforts to punish war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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New York City under Giuliani embraced the "broken windows" theory of policing -- the idea that heavily enforcing punishments for small crimes like graffiti and vandalism would deter larger more serious crimes.
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As of 2015, there were around 92,000 federal prisoners in for drug crimes, and more than 100,000 in for other crimes — far more inmates than Obama's nearly 2,000 clemency approvals reached.
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International Criminal Court judges have ordered the interim release of former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, days after he was acquitted on appeal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"The constitutional standard invites us to think about crimes against the state, and the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over what I call low crimes and misdemeanors, lying about sex," Raskin said.
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It showed where crimes were happening in real time, and given the name, I suppose the idea was to encourage users to try to stop these crimes as they were happening.
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Notably, he supported a constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and he opposed classifying crimes against gay people as hate crimes.
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Mueller looked at potential crimes outside of conspiracy as he investigated collusion -- including crimes under campaign finance law and regarding individuals potentially acting as illegal foreign agents for the Russian government.
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They're also upset that even as police carry out what many see as harassment and brutality over petty crimes, the justice system neglects much more serious crimes like shootings and murders.
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Namibia said in March that it would withdraw from the ICC, which sits in The Hague and has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
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Murad has campaigned for a United Nations investigative team to collect and preserve evidence of acts by Islamic State in Iraq that may be war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide.
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"Once again they're saying yes, our guys committed horrible crimes, but we're going to make up the rules for how these crimes are handled," said Barbara Dorris, outreach director for SNAP.
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Jones was arrested for a litany of art theft crimes and heading to federal prison… until Benjamin strode in to confess to each and every one of his lady's suspected crimes.
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Police recorded 11,638 hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation between 0983 and 2018, up from 9,157 the previous year, and 1,651 hate crimes against transgender people up from 1,248.
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"We have to have conversations and be conscious about the words we use to describe people, such as people accused of crimes, even victims of crimes, public officials," he told CNN.
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And, indeed, it was the right thing — because real anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews are on the rise across the country, along with hate crimes targeting many other groups.
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They reported that clearance rates were either flat or decreasing prior to legalization, but then improved significantly following the change in law — particularly with respect to violent crimes and property crimes.
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"It is ridiculous to believe that I would encourage sworn officers to falsify crime reports and to pin crimes on innocent people when clearing crimes was not my responsibility," Churchman said.
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But the larger question is what is privacy in today's digital age and if technology can be used to commit crimes, why can't it be used to solve and prevent crimes?
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ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked a pre-trial chamber of judges in November for authorization to launch a full investigation into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.
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Steady increases in hate crimes numbers since 2749 In 258.1, reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 22017%, according to FBI numbers, from 22017 incidents in 230 to 20173 in 22017.
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He has focused more extensively than any previous national candidate on crimes committed by illegal immigrants despite strong evidence that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
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The United Nations has called for Myanmar's military leaders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes following a campaign of persecution and killing of Rohingya.
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Some crimes are crimes of passion, while others are for profit, but some are so senseless that they leave you reeling, grasping for meaning amidst the madness of this crazy world.
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In April, Providence, R.I., where Doyle lives, revised its housing admissions policy, halving the "look back" period for violent and drug-related crimes and no longer weighing arrests and minor crimes.
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The international judge, Michael Bohlander of Germany, argued that there was sufficient evidence to indict Mr. Meas Muth in the genocide of the Vietnamese, crimes against humanity, war crimes and homicide.
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Before a license is granted, officials check the buyer's past for any violent crimes or behavior, crimes involving firearms or violent episodes related to mental illness in the preceding five years.
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Virtually all research concludes that immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, commit fewer crimes, including violent crimes, than native-born Americans (among other things, they do not want to draw attention to themselves).
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They are focused on narrowing the definition of crimes that can prompt long mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug crimes and on cutting the length of some of the required sentences.
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"Such acts could constitute crimes within the jurisdiction of the I.C.C.," Ms. Bensouda said, adding that the court would not hesitate to prosecute those believed to be responsible for the crimes.
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One reason is that the most gruesome crimes that have caught the public attention were directed at immigrants, mostly with a Muslim background, or were crimes connected to the immigration crisis.
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Greenwald has only been charged, not indicted, and he will only respond to phone and computer hacking crimes, while the others will face crimes of money laundering, said the Federal Prosecutors.
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Bashir, who was ousted in April 2019 after months of nationwide protests, faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes at the ICC in The Hague.
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The court, moreover, was created to prosecute cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes among member countries only when their national courts are unwilling or unable to do so.
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And decisions about where to draw a city's borders and which offenses to count as official crimes can matter as much as how many crimes were reported in a given year.
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"If victims and witnesses of crimes don't report those crimes to the police because they fear deportation, that allows the real bad guys to stay on the streets," Mr. Kenney said.
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While they support the idea of deporting immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes, they oppose forcing people to leave the country for minor crimes, like driving without a license.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's attorney general's office is investigating five top leaders from the country's ELN guerrilla group for nearly 16,000 war crimes and crimes against humanity, the office said on Wednesday.
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Bashir himself is wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, yet he continues to travel abroad with "near impunity," the lawmakers claimed on Wednesday.
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They wrap themselves up in the flag and squawk about patriotism and try to convince people that war crimes are not, in fact, crimes but rather part of the mission. Nonsense.
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They are accused of three counts of crimes against humanity and seven counts of war crimes stemming from attacks on the village of Bogoro that occurred between January and March 2003.
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Individuals who are convicted of violent misdemeanors — including cruelty to animals, hate crimes, any type of domestic violence, or other violent crimes — should not be allowed to own or purchase firearms.
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After arriving in Israel, and following a remarkable trial that captured global attention, Eichmann was finally brought to justice, convicted of war crimes and hanged by Israel for crimes against humanity.
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"For six years, the international community has stood by as the Syrian government has committed crimes against humanity and war crimes with total impunity," said Amnesty International's Syria researcher, Diana Semaan.
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The panel's report called on Israel to investigate "every protest-related killing and injury in accordance with international standards" to determine whether war crimes or crimes against humanity had been committed.
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Still, there were only about 22018,500 major crimes — including murders, rapes and robberies — in the system last year, or about seven per day, compared with nearly 17,500 transit crimes in 1990.
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The corruption charges Mr. al-Bashir faces in Sudan are unrelated to his decade-old indictment by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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The PILPG's refugee interviews formed the basis of a U.S. State Department report released in September, but Washington stopped short of using the terms crimes against humanity, genocide or war crimes.
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While sex crimes committed against minors can be tried before a victim's fortieth birthday, the ruling doesn't apply to crimes that took place before the law went into effect in 2015.
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