In her view, the most important thing is for Britain to maintain its commitment to universal jurisdiction.

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This turn of events is the logical flipside of Parliament's abject refusal to amend Britain's outrageous universal jurisdiction law.

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Both Spain and Belgium amended their universal jurisdiction laws for this reason.

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Metropolitan Police detectives held Col Lama under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.

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Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime.

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The Convention gave effect to certain of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established an international judicial organ with jurisdiction to find against States (States Parties to the Convention) that do not fulfil their undertakings.

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