The German criminal charges against Donald Rumsfeld – the long road to implement international criminal justice at the domestic level

摘要

On 29 November 2004, the United States-based Center for Constitutional Rights and four Iraqi individuals lay a charge with the German federal prosecutor at the German federal court for criminal matters against the (then) United States secretary of defence and ten other individuals of the United States military and security apparatus with the allegation that they were responsible for the prisoner abuses in the United States-run Iraqi prison in Abu Ghraib, which took place in 2003 and 2004.