Sentencing by International Tribunals: A Human Rights Approach

Abstract

creation of the international tribunals for the former Yugoslavia 4 and for Rwanda. 5 The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (collectively "Statutes") contain brief provisions dealing with sentencing, proposing essentially that sentences be limited to imprisonment (thereby tacitly excluding the death penalty, as well as corporal punishment, imprisonment with hard labor, and fines) and that they be established taking into account the "general practice" of the criminal courts in the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda, as the case 4. The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is an annex to the