(vi) The trying of civilians and the imposition of the death penalty by the Military Court

Persons tried by the Military Court

(b) Such persons must be tried by ordinary courts and not by special or military courts

I ask this court... to find the accused guilty... and impose the penalties prescribed by the code of military justice.

The use of military tribunals should be limited to trials of military personnel for acts committed in the course of military actions.

We question the appropriateness of using a military tribunal to try former military officers and civilians.

Article 1 of the new Act stipulates, there shall be established, within the courts of first instance and military courts, specialized chambers with exclusive competence to try the offences referred to in article 1 .

Their trials by the Special Military Tribunal have allegedly been riddled with unfair practices.

HRFOR has also monitored the trials before Rwandan military courts.

Now I hear he's courtmartialling Carstairs.

Furthermore, they were reportedly tried in a closed court room and the right to appeal was suppressed by the Military Tribunal.

He threatened that anyone who violated the ban would be tried before the military courts.

I have here courtmartial papers on Lieutenant Carstairs signed by you.

2.2 The author filed an application for judicial review and annulment with the Fifth Chamber of the Supreme Court, convening as a military chamber.

98. Where the military courts are concerned, the Special Rapporteur reiterates his earlier recommendation to limit their jurisdiction to trying strictly military offences committed by military personnel.

Japanese leaders were brought to trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and paid for their crimes.

The officers in charge of the investigation were brought to the court.

It has also been alleged that Ikpe was tried by a secret military tribunal and was sentenced on 14 July 1995, to life imprisonment.

In July 1995 he was reportedly tried in secret by a special military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment for publishing materials which could obstruct the work of the coup plotters tribunal and for misleading the public .

Among the most pressing issues has been the practice of establishing special courts or tribunals, including military tribunals, to try civilians suspected of terrorist crimes where those tribunals fail to meet minimum fair trial standards under international law.

Currently the Presiding Judge, Civil Division, High Court of Kenya.

while the other, in which the victim had died, had been investigated by a military court, after which the President of the Republic had decided, in application of article 224 of the Code of Military Justice, to file the case.

She was initially accused of the crime of betraying the country before the Special Naval Court under military law, which acquitted her in first instance on 5 March 1993 on appeal by the Military Prosecutor she was sentenced to 30 years apos imprisonment a sentence which was set aside by the Supreme Council of the Military System of Justice (24 September 1993), which ordered her to be tried by the ordinary courts for the crime of terrorism.

It's a courtmartial offence to dream of blowing it up.

While military courts can in principle constitute an independent and impartial tribunal for the purposes of trying members of the military for certain crimes truly related to military service and discipline, problems arise when military courts are used to try civilians for terrorism related offences.

With nine ad litem judges, the Tribunal is able to set up six Trial Chamber Sections.

C. The trial and the court judgement

72. All persons serving sentences after trial by military tribunals and by processes which fell short of international guarantees for a fair trial should be released.

(e) Those who have been convicted and sentenced by special tribunals in which there have been violations of the right to a fair trial, such as those convicted by the Special Military Tribunal in the so called coup plotters apos trial, should be pardoned and immediately released from detention.

It was alleged by the source that the Military Tribunal has supplanted the civilian judicial process in trials involving human rights and pro democracy activities.

52. The military courts have continued, after conducting irregular trials, to impose the death penalty with chilling frequency (see paras. 67 and 68).

The use of military tribunals to try a person accused of terrorist acts must meet all requirements of international humanitarian law for such tribunals.

27. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the release of several prisoners who were serving sentences after trial by military tribunals and by processes which fell short of international fair trial guarantees.

The addition of one Trial Chamber would allow the Tribunal to conduct trials simultaneously.

With nine ad litem judges, the Tribunal is able to set up six Trial Chamber Sections.

3. The International Tribunal currently has 12 trials to be conducted by its two Trial Chambers.One trial is presently being conducted by a Trial Chamber of three judges who were permitted by the Security Council in its resolution 1126 (1997) to remain until November 1998 to complete the trial. (Prosecutor v. Zejnil Delalić, Zdravko Mucić, also known as quot Pavo quot , Hazim Delić and Esad Landžo, also known as quot Zenga quot , Case No. IT 96 21 T, T.Ch.II.)

My only regret is that we have to keep you in uniform until a courtmartial is concluded.

All these have been well received by children and their parents.

Greece As Greece has been in a state of general mobilization since 1976, resisters are tried by military courts.

The Legal Aid Department provides legal representation to eligible persons in both civil and criminal cases heard in the Court of Final Appeal, the Court of Appeal, the Court of First Instance, the District Court and the Magistrates' Court (for committal proceedings).

However, it follows from the ICTR Statute that a Trial Chamber Section must be comprised of both permanent and ad litem judges.

It has also been hearing the continuation of the Military I case (Bagosora, Kabiligi, Ntabakuze and Nsengiyumva), transferred from the previous Trial Chamber III.

The court examined the evidence and affirmed the conviction

Imposition of the death penalty on civilians by military tribunals or by tribunals whose composition includes one or more members of the armed forces

After an indictment was drawn up against them by the examining magistrate on 15 December 1992, they were brought before the Military Court which sentenced them at a public hearing to seven years apos imprisonment, under articles 5 and 6 of the act of 11 January 1958.