An Evaluation on the Judgment of International Court of Justice in the Arrest Warrant Case

Volume: 55 Number: 2 September 1, 2006
  • Uğur Bayıllıoğlu
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An Evaluation on the Judgment of International Court of Justice in the Arrest Warrant Case

Abstract

An international arrest warrant in absenta was issued by a Belgian investigating magistrate on 11 April 2000 against the incumbent Minister for Foreign Affairs, Abdulaye Yerodia Ndombasi, of Democratic Republic of the Congo, alleging serious violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity in particular the incitement of racial hatred causing the massacre of numerous Tutsi civilians. Democratic Republic of the Congo government claimed that the international circulation of the arrest warrant against Yerodia violated the rules of customary international law on absolute inviolability and immunity from criminal process for incumbent Ministers for Foreign Affairs and requested from the Court to declare that Belgium shall annul the arrest warrant. Belgium argued if a Minister for Foreign Affairs was afforded immunity absolutely, it would constitute a bar against individual responsibility for violation of international humanitarian law and try to support for this proposition it based on decisions of some national and international judicial organs. Finally International Court of Justice claimed that the arrest warrant issued against Abdulaye Yerodia Ndombasi and its international circulation, constituted violations of a legal obligation of Belgium towards the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in that they failed to respect the immunity from criminal jurisdiction and the inviolability which the incumbent Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo enjoyed under international law and ordered Belgium to cancel the arrest warrant of 11 April 2000 by means of its own choosing. In this paper the decision of the Court will be examined in the context of universal jurisdiction and immunities enjoyed under international law and immunities and inviolabilities legal positions towards violations of international humanitarian law

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Uğur Bayıllıoğlu This is me

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September 1, 2006

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September 1, 2006

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Year 2006 Volume: 55 Number: 2

APA
Bayıllıoğlu, U. (2006). ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, 55(2), 27-63. https://doi.org/10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353
AMA
1.Bayıllıoğlu U. ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi. 2006;55(2):27-63. doi:10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353
Chicago
Bayıllıoğlu, Uğur. 2006. “ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME”. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi 55 (2): 27-63. https://doi.org/10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353.
EndNote
Bayıllıoğlu U (September 1, 2006) ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi 55 2 27–63.
IEEE
[1]U. Bayıllıoğlu, “ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME”, Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 27–63, Sept. 2006, doi: 10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353.
ISNAD
Bayıllıoğlu, Uğur. “ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME”. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi 55/2 (September 1, 2006): 27-63. https://doi.org/10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353.
JAMA
1.Bayıllıoğlu U. ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi. 2006;55:27–63.
MLA
Bayıllıoğlu, Uğur. “ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME”. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 55, no. 2, Sept. 2006, pp. 27-63, doi:10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353.
Vancouver
1.Uğur Bayıllıoğlu. ULUSLARARASI ADALET DİVANI’NIN TUTUKLAMA MÜZEKKERESİ DAVASI HAKKINDAKİ KARARINA İLİŞKİN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi. 2006 Sep. 1;55(2):27-63. doi:10.1501/Hukfak_0000000353

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