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Titolo: Tzipi Livni spared war crime arrest threat

Insomma, sfruttando la nuova normativa il F.O. ha attribuito alla Livni 
un salvacondotto diplomatico per il quale essa non ha titolo.
Come si vede, una volta ceduto alla Lobby la corruzione si diffonde.
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Tzipi Livni spared war crime arrest threat
Foreign Office declares that the Israeli opposition leader enjoys 
temporary diplomatic immunity as she is on a 'special mission'
The Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has avoided the possibility of 
prosecution in a British court for war crimes after the Foreign Office 
declared that she enjoys temporary diplomatic immunity.
     * Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
     * 
guardian.co.uk
, Thursday 6 October 2011 21.41 BST
A private application for a warrant to arrest the former foreign 
minister during her visit to London was made on Tuesday and had been 
under consideration by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC.
But the announcement that the Foreign Office had issued a rarely heard 
of certificate that she was on a "special mission" infuriated 
Palestinian activists and human rights groups.
Legislation passed earlier this year requires the DPP to give his 
consent to any private prosecution for war crimes launched in courts in 
England and Wales to prevent politically motivated cases and to ensure 
that there was "solid evidence". Under what is known as universal 
jurisdiction, war crimes committed anywhere in the world can be tried in 
UK courts.
The arrival of Livni was a significant test case. In late 2009, an 
arrest warrant was issued for Livni on the grounds she had been a member 
of the Israeli war cabinet that sanctioned the assault on Gaza in which 
more than a thousand Palestinians were killed. On that occasion she 
cancelled her visit.
In a detailed statement, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revealed 
that it had received a fresh application for an arrest warrant on 
Tuesday. "No concluded view has been reached on whether there is 
sufficient evidence to support a realistic prospect of conviction 
against Ms Livni."
On Thursday, it added, the CPS had been served with a certificate by the 
foreign secretary, William Hague, declaring the Foreign Office "has 
consented to the visit to the UK of Ms Livni as a special mission".
"Special mission" immunity status, the CPS said, could not be challenged.
The private prosecution application had been brought on behalf of an 
unnamed Palestinian police officer whose brother, also a police officer, 
was killed during the first day of the attack on Gaza in 2008.
The case was handled in London by Daniel Machover of the solicitors 
Hickman and Rose. A joint statement with the Palestinian Centre for 
Human Rights said: "The DPP … has been blocked from any arrest decision 
… but not on the basis of a lack of evidence. The only reason given by 
the DPP is the retrospective grant of diplomatic immunity to Ms Livni by 
the British foreign secretary on the basis of a 'special mission'.
"The government has abused the law in order to ensure that Ms Livni 
escapes accountability. Ms Livni is not a member of the Israeli 
government, but the leader of the opposition. This action exhibits a 
serious and worrying disregard for the rule of law, and appears to be in 
violation of the UK's international obligations."
Hague said: "It was an appalling situation when political abuse of our 
legal procedures prevented people like Ms Livni from travelling 
legitimately to the UK. We have dealt with this urgently as we promised 
to on coming to office.
"The UK will continue to honour our international obligations and make 
sure that people who have committed some of the most awful crimes – 
wherever in the world they took place – can be brought to justice in our 
courts."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/tzipi-livni-war-crime-arrest-threat
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