Implementation of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3275, November 14, 2001U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 57 pages |
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... give you an example . If there is an individual in the U.S. who provides funding for the hijacking of a plane in France where there is no American citizen on the plane and no other U.S. connection , that would not be a vio- lation of ...
... give you an example . If there is an individual in the U.S. who provides funding for the hijacking of a plane in France where there is no American citizen on the plane and no other U.S. connection , that would not be a vio- lation of ...
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... gives us a little extra moral authority , but it doesn't seem to actually provide anything for us . Mr. WITTEN . Well , becoming a party to a treaty of this character does provide more for us . It gives us , for example , a legal basis ...
... gives us a little extra moral authority , but it doesn't seem to actually provide anything for us . Mr. WITTEN . Well , becoming a party to a treaty of this character does provide more for us . It gives us , for example , a legal basis ...
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... give us much more than , again , perhaps a little bit of extra moral authority . But it sounds as though that the steps that we would take in the case of a nation , a signatory , not following through would be largely the steps we would ...
... give us much more than , again , perhaps a little bit of extra moral authority . But it sounds as though that the steps that we would take in the case of a nation , a signatory , not following through would be largely the steps we would ...
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... give us an area where just give us a list of those provisions that are new or that are not required by the con- ventions so that we can deal with the implementing language in a more thoughtful way ? Mr. CHERTOFF . We can do that . I can 16.
... give us an area where just give us a list of those provisions that are new or that are not required by the con- ventions so that we can deal with the implementing language in a more thoughtful way ? Mr. CHERTOFF . We can do that . I can 16.
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... gives us jurisdiction where someone is found in the country - it is what they call universal jurisdiction— even if the act in question occurred overseas and did not involve Americans . So it fills some gaps in the existing law in order ...
... gives us jurisdiction where someone is found in the country - it is what they call universal jurisdiction— even if the act in question occurred overseas and did not involve Americans . So it fills some gaps in the existing law in order ...
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acceptance or approval advice and consent alleged offender appropriate approval or accession BRARY cause death Chairman CHERTOFF COBLE commits an offence Committee CONGRESS THE LIBR CONGRESS THE LIBRARY criminal death or serious death penalty DELAHUNT deposit domestic law enter into force Financing of Terrorism funds government facility GRES GRESS THE LIBRARY implementing legislation instrument of ratification intent to cause International Convention international law international terrorism jurisdiction in accordance LAMAR SMITH LIBRA LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MICHAEL CHERTOFF money laundering mutual legal assistance NGRES obligations offence is committed offences set offender is present ONGRES person was transferred proposed radiological weapons RARY RARY OF CONGRESS RESS RIC KELLER rorism SCOTT Secretary-General Senate serious bodily injury SHEILA JACKSON LEE SMITH stateless person statute SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME subparagraph Suppression of Terrorist Suppression of Unlawful territory terrorist acts Terrorist Bombings Convention Terrorist Financing Thank tion U.S. law United Nations Unlawful Acts Witten
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Page 35 - Party which makes extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty receives a request for extradition from another...
Page 32 - ... and it does not extradite him pursuant to article 8 to any of the States mentioned in paragraph 1 of this article.
Page 35 - Extradition shall be subject to the other conditions provided by the law of the requested State. 3. States Parties which do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty shall recognize such offences as extraditable offences between themselves subject to the conditions provided by the law of the requested State.
Page 40 - Parties shall not be bound by paragraph 1 of this article with respect to any State Party which has made such a reservation. 3. Any State Party which has made a reservation in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article may at any time withdraw that reservation by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Page 41 - Nations. 2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession.
Page 6 - Any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Page 36 - The same rule shall apply if the requested Party has substantial grounds for believing that a request for extradition for an ordinary criminal offence has been made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing a person on account of his race, religion, nationality or political opinion, or that that person's position may be prejudiced for any of these reasons.
Page 35 - Party shall not transmit or use information or evidence furnished by the requested Party for investigations, prosecutions or proceedings other than those stated in the request without the prior consent of the requested Party.
Page 32 - The offence is committed by a stateless person who has his or her habitual residence in the territory of that State; (e) The offence is committed on board an aircraft which is operated by the Government of that State.
Page 41 - Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date on which five States, including at least four member States of the Council of Europe...