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Investigations of ICC in the Situation of Congo and its Challenges; From International Criminal Prosecutor's Duties to informant's Role

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Javad Salehi
پیام نور
Abstract
The Prosecutor of the international criminal in investigation in Congo, take an unprecedented approach. Prosecutor preferred to take informants performance instead of using the prosecutors office's personnel for research. Hence negotiated with them for confidential contract. The Prosecutor in this contract accept two conditions; privacy information and contract resources and the use of research in advance and earn new arguments were committed. But these conditions challenge the Prosecutor with the ban on resorting documents to advance criminal court records, and an inability to obtain the license of informants for the reasons provided to the judges face. This article is about the Prosecutor's approach to the conflict, according to the terms of the confidential agreement possible with the provisions of the articles of statute and the International Criminal Court taken procedural with analysis and critical review.
Keywords
Criminal research
Status of the Congo
International Criminal Prosecutor
Confidential Contract
Informants
Subjects
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Treaty Legal Research
Volume 2, summer - Serial Number 3
Autumn 2018
Pages 155-170

  • Receive Date 26 February 2018
  • Revise Date 05 August 2018
  • Accept Date 26 May 2018