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Irwin Cotler News From AOL News

Jurists Seek to Put Iranian Leaders in the Dock

By Matthew KalmanJul 28th 2010 – 11:05AM
Atta Kenare, AFP / Getty Images

Atta Kenare, AFP / Getty Images

JERUSALEM (July 28) -- As the European Union announced new, tougher sanctions this week against Iran, a blue-chip coalition of lawyers and human rights activists reiterated its demand that Iranian leaders be brought before the International Court of Justice for incitement to genocide and the brutal repression of their own...

Irwin Cotler News From the Web

  • 05/11/12 Cotler: War Criminals Aren't Being Brought To Justice Source: Armenian News Network / Groong WAR CRIMINALS AREN'T BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Cotler+criminals+aren+being+brought+justice/6594536/story.html By Irwin Cotler May 9, 2012 T.S. Eliot famously called April "the cruellest month," and indeed, last month we marked the anniversaries of the Rwandan genocide, Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day - as well as the Armenian genocide and the Srebrenica massacre.
  • 05/02/12 Irwin Cotler's secret: calm amid the chaos Source: Macleans It's Tuesday afternoon, and Parliament is engaged in the daily schoolyard display known as question period.

Background on Irwin Cotler

Irwin Cotler, PC, OC, MP (born May 8, 1940) was Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul Martin lost power following the 2006 federal election.

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