Court rules against foreign genocide trials

A court in Roskilde has determined that Denmark's genocide laws cannot be used for crimes committed abroad. Archive photo of the Nyaza cemetery outside Kigali, Rwanda, where thousands of victims of the 1994 genocide are buried.
A court in Roskilde has determined that Denmark's genocide laws cannot be used for crimes committed abroad. Archive photo of the Nyaza cemetery outside Kigali, Rwanda, where thousands of victims of the 1994 genocide are buried.
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The Roskilde Court has ruled that Denmark’s 1955 genocide law cannot be used to prosecute foreigners on charges of genocide committed abroad, in the first ruling by a Danish court on whether Danish courts have jurisdiction in such cases.

“The court finds no basis on which to assume that there is a legal basis in Denmark to prosecute foreigners charged with having committed genocide in another country,” the judge has ruled.

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