(How) Can International Criminal Law Safeguard Fundamental Human Rights? The Denial of the Rights to Fair Proceeding as International Crimes KU Leuven
Dystopian forms of justice are not a fantasy. States and non-state armed groups frequently employ unfair trials as a ‘weapon’ of war. In wartime, individuals charged for having committed a crime are therefore deprived of fundamental judicial guarantees or denied a trial altogether. Such infringements often culminate in indefinite detention and executions. For example, eastern Ukraine and Crimea have recorded serious violations of the right to ...