South Africa Constitutional Court On Universal Jurisdiction: Validating the Obvious

<div class="post-copy"><p>We’ve&nbsp;<a href="http://justsecurity.org/?s=%22south+africa%22">blogged earlier</a>&nbsp;about the administrative review case proceeding in South Africa that is addressed to the question of whether the South African Police Service (SAPS) and National Prosecution Authority (NPA) are obliged by domestic law to investigate the commission of torture in neighboring Zimbabwe by members of that countries’ security forces and their superiors (so-called “securocrats”). Last week, the Constitutional Court affirmed an earlier ruling that the SAPS and NPA had in fact failed to carry out their statutory duties to investigate the commission of crimes against humanity and had not acted “reasonably” in declining to investigate the alleged crimes against humanity.
Read the full article here: Just Security