Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea

State:Cambodia
Date: Oct. 27, 2004
Language:English
Status:Enacted
Version:PDF

Relevant Keywords

Abetting
Aiding
Amnesty compatibility
Appeal against decision of acquittal or conviction or against sentence - national proceedings
Applicable law
Assurance that the witness will not be prosecuted, detained or subjected to restriction of personal freedom
Attempt
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Command responsibility - national proceedings
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Conspiracy
Crimes against humanity
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Equality of arms
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Fair trial standards
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Genocide
Grave breaches - IAC
Immunity - national proceedings
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Individual commission
Individual criminal responsibility
Inducing
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Killing members of the group
Language
Legal Aid
Manifestly unlawful order
Murder - crimes against humanity
National penalties - life imprisonment
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - national proceedings
Obligations arising out of State or diplomatic immunity
Ordering
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Pardon
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Preparation
Presumption of innocence
Procedure for witness testimony - national proceedings
Protection of safety of physical or psychological well-being of victims, witnesses and families
Rape - crimes against humanity
Rights during investigation - access to interpreter and translation if questioned in other language
Rights during investigation - arbitrary arrest or detention and deprivation of liberty
Rights during investigation - legal assistance
Rights during investigation - not to be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Rights during investigation - self incrimination
Rights during trial - adequate preparation of defence
Rights during trial - burden of proof
Rights during trial - conduct defence in person
Rights during trial - counsel of accused's choosing
Rights during trial - disclosure of evidence to defence
Rights during trial - free communication with counsel
Rights during trial - informed promptly and in detail of charges
Rights during trial - interpretation and translation
Rights during trial - legal assistance
Rights during trial - present at trial
Rights during trial - remain silent
Rights during trial - tried without undue delay
State privileges and immunities
Statute of limitations - national proceedings
Superior / subordinate relationship (civilian) - national proceedings
Superior / subordinate relationship (military) - national proceedings
Superior orders - national proceedings
Superior responsibility - national proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Torture - IAC
Torture - crimes against humanity
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Victims' rights - national proceedings
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Witness protection - national proceedings
Witnesses' rights - national proceedings