Gordon Brown to Stop Courts issuing Arrest Warrants for Foreign Officials

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced plans to change a British law that allows arrest warrants against foreign officials for war crimes and other violations of international law. The move follows after British courts' increasing action against visiting foreign officials under the principle of universal jurisdiction. As a result several high profile foreign officials have refused to travel to the UK, including Israel's foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. Brown's announcement comes a few days after the arrest in London of Ejup Ganic, a former Bosnian vice president. Serbia accuses him of war crimes committed during the Bosnian war in 1992...More