Talk:Nulla poena sine lege

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[edit] Article 169

I have deleted the following line: "This concept is in Article 169 in the Constitution of Iran", since in almost every constitution or criminal law the rule of nulla poena sine lege is known or codified. Averroes 20:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Genocide

I am removing this phrase:

A similar principle has appeared in the recent decades with regard to crimes of genocide, allowing the Nuremberg trials to take place.

Those tried for taking part in the Holocust were tried for crimes against humanity not genocide. The term "crimes against humanity" was first used in relation to international relations in 1915. One can argue that the London Charter introduced retrospective law, but it was not the crime of gencide. Further the decleration at the Moscow Conference (1943) had made it clear to those involved in Nazi atricities that: "evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled", that Germans would be sent back to the countries where they had committed their crimes and "judged on the spot by the peoples whom they have outraged"; and as for those Germans, whose criminal offenses had no particular geographical localization, they would be punished by joint decision of the government of the Allies. --Philip Baird Shearer 09:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)