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The Khmer Rouge regime took power on 17 April 1975 and was overthrown on 7 January 1979. Perhaps up to three million people perished during this period of 3 years, 8 months and 20 days. The end of Khmer Rouge period was followed by a civil war. That war finally ended in 1998, when the Khmer Rouge political and military structures were dismantled.

In 1997 the government requested the United Nations (UN) to assist in establishing a trial to prosecute the senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge.

In 2001 the Cambodian National Assembly passed a law to create a court to try serious crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime 1975-1979. This court is called the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea (Extraordinary Chambers or ECCC).

The government of Cambodia insisted that, for the sake of the Cambodian people, the trial must be held in Cambodia using Cambodian staff and judges together with foreign personnel. Cambodia invited international participation due to the weakness of the Cambodian legal system and the international nature of the crimes, and to help in meeting international standards of justice. An agreement with the UN was ultimately reached in June 2003 detailing how the international community will assist and participate in the Extraordinary Chambers.

This Sunday, August 5th, the renowned jurist Luis del Castillo Aragón has left us. Mr. Del Castillo Aragón assumed the deanship of the Bar Association of Barcelona (ICAB) between 2002 and 2003 and was the president of the International Criminal Bar (BPI-ICB-CAPI) from 2010 to 2014.

Luis del Castillo Aragón was born in Madrid in 1934 and graduated in Law in 1956. Three years later he transferred his residence to Barcelona, ​​where he worked as a professor at the University of Barcelona from 1960 to 1966, as deputy to the Chair of Political Law (today Constitutional Law).

In 1975 he founded his own criminal law office in Barcelona.

Since his incorporation as a member of ICAB, in 1970, Luis del Castillo was closely linked to the collegiate life. He closely collaborated as a speaker in the Deontology Commission, which he subsequently chaired. He was also vice-dean of the Bar Association from 1997 to 2005; and served as dean in 2002.

Also in 2002, he was elected spanish representative of the International Criminal Bar (BPI-ICB-CAPI). In 2003 he was awarded by the General Council of the Spanish Lawyers (CGAE) with the Cross of Merit in the Legal Profession.

On December 13, 2010, he was distinguished with an honorable mention of the Justice Award of Catalonia.

On April 15, 2015, he received the Grand Cross of Merit in the Service to the Legal Profession granted by the same CGAE in the course of an act held in the Column Court of the collegiate headquarters.

Additionally, on April 14 of the present year 2018 he was decorated with the Cross of Honor of the Order of Sant Raimon de Penyafort from the (now former) Minister of Justice, Rafael Catalá.

Presently, he was the president of the International Criminal Justice Commission of the ICAB and honorary president of the BPI-ICB-CAPI.

Throughout his professional and vital career, Luis del Castillo became a great defender of freedoms and human rights.

Luis del Castillo was an inexhaustible lawyer who never stopped working, for continuing to defend human freedoms, his sense of justice surpassed the cases in which he was involved. His life affected anyone who knew him even for a moment, his humanity and kindness as well as his great humor will always be with the people who had the chance to cross paths with him.

Rest in peace.

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4Th International Meeting Of Defence Offices

25 & 26 November 2016 London, United Kingdom

SUMMARY REPORT

 

Defence Office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Dear Madam, Sir,

The Defence Office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon thank you again for your participation in the Fourth International Meetings of Defence Offices which were held in London, on 25th and 26th of November 2016.

Please find attached the Summary report of the Meetings in French, English and Arabic. 

You will also find attached the questionnaire on Defence Investigations, which we thank you for completing in the language of your choice, and sending back to us, if you have not already done so. As Johann said during the Meetings,your answers will be very useful in that they will illustrate the Guide to Investigations with concrete examples from you experience.

Thank you again for your participation and we hope to see you again in Nuremberg for the Fifth Meetings in 2017.

Kind regards,