Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Prosper Tegamaisho Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 80 ISBN: 9783843375221
Описание
This study focuses on the protection of terrorism suspects under International Humanitarian Law. This study makes Guantanamo Bay in Cuba a case study. The central themes of this study is the question on whether Guantanamo bay detainees are entitled for prisoners of war status or and also this study deals with the legal position for detainees suspected of terrorism acts during peacetime. These are main issues the field study has attempted to address. The study has revealed that every component of the ‘war on terrorism'', every situation in which persons held in Guantanamo were involved and every individual detained there has to be qualified separately. Many persons held in Guantanamo are not at all covered by international humanitarian law (IHL). Others benefit from the fundamental guarantees of International Humanitarian Law of non-international armed conflicts, which do not offer a legal basis for their detention an issue dealt with by domestic law. The study has also shown that...
