Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An atrocity crime is a violation of international criminal law that falls under the historically three legally defined international crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. [1]
Atrocity or Atrocities or Atrocious may refer to: Atrocity (band), a German metal band; Atrocities, the fourth album by Christian Death; Mass atrocity crimes, international crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; Atrocious, a 2010 Spanish film; Atrocity, a crime against scheduled castes or scheduled tribes in India
In 2017, Dick Van Dyke was selected to receive an award for television excellence from BAFTA, at which time he said "I appreciate this opportunity to apologise to the members of Bafta for inflicting on them the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema." A chief executive of Bafta responded, "We look forward to his acceptance ...
This definition of crimes against humanity revived the original 'Nuremberg' nexus with armed conflict, connecting crimes against humanity to both international and non-international armed conflict. It also expanded the list of criminal acts used in Nuremberg to include imprisonment, torture and rape. [56]
in Flagranti, Antwerp 1607 . In flagrante delicto (Latin for "in blazing offence"), sometimes simply in flagrante ("in blazing"), is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare corpus delicti).
Torture [a] is defined as the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on someone under the control of the perpetrator. [2] [3] The treatment must be inflicted for a specific purpose, such as punishment and forcing the victim to confess or provide information.
The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, [2] though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. [3] The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. [2]
The word atrament is related to modern English atrocious: both originate from Latin atrare, which presumably meant to make something black. According to the Pigment Compendium, [2] atramentum is a historical pigment or ink based on carbon black.