{"id":15448,"date":"2020-03-05T19:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/mar\/05\/senior-icc-judges-authorise-afghanistan-war-crimes-inquiry"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:04:50","slug":"senior-icc-judges-authorise-afghanistan-war-crimes-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15448","title":{"rendered":"Senior ICC judges authorise Afghanistan war crimes inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision overturns earlier rejection of request to examine actions of US soldiers<\/p>\n<p>Senior judges at the international criminal court have authorised an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, overturning an earlier rejection of the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC investigation will look at actions by US, Afghan and Taliban troops. It is possible, however, that allegations relating to UK troops could emerge in that process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/mar\/05\/senior-icc-judges-authorise-afghanistan-war-crimes-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision overturns earlier rejection of request to examine actions of US soldiersSenior judges at the international criminal court have authorised an investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, overturning an earli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,927,734,86,61,44,554,473,47,631,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-law","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-trump-administration","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-war-crimes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15449,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions\/15449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}