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Someone explain this to me.

CPA

CPA

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How can Belgium use a law to prosecute someone outside of their soverign borders? This is not a world court law, but rather a Belgium law and it doesn't matter where you live, you can be prosecuted. That doesn't make much sense. Someone please explain.
 
The plaintiffs are using a Belgian human rights law which claims universal jurisdiction allowing the country's courts to try crimes against humanity and genocide, no matter where they were committed.

I doubt Sharon would travel to belgium so he could be possibly prosecuted under Belgium law. I guess that law makes Blegiums happy or something as it carries no international weight.
 
Any country could do that. Of course, it would have no effect on the person involved so long as they never enter that country.
 
I don't normally correct spelling and stuff, but just FYI:

Belgium = name of the country
Belgian = things of Belgium


ie, the Belgian people, Belgian law...


I don't mind this at all, so long as they don't actually go out, nab the guy, bring him back to Belgium and have him prosecuted. What if some guy rapes and murders children in a foreign country and then immigrates to your country? Would you wait until he repeated his actions in your neighbourhood before you arrested him? It's a deterrant for criminals really.
 
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