Below is a selection of media coverage of the Aegis campaign to strengthen UK law on international crimes, and other stories and press related to the issue:
Letter in the Guardian by Geoffrey Bindman QC
09 July 09, The Independent, Legacy of Genocide: alive, well and living in Britain
08 July 09, The Independent, New powers to prosecute war criminals in the UK
08 July 09, The Guardian, Law targets war crime suspects living in the UK
08 July 09, AFP, Planned legislation closes war crimes loopholes: says PM
08 July 09, The Times, Jack Straw to close legal loophole used by war criminals
08 July 09, The Sun, Four Brit residents accused of deaths of over 800 000 in Rwanda
08 July 09, The Daily Mail, 'War criminals sheltering in the UK face trial as legal loophole is closed
07 July 09, The New Statesman 'Jack Straw Unveils Plans for genocide reform
07 July 09, BBC Online, 'UK plans new powers on genocide'
Newsnight item on the government announcements to close a loophole in UK law on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
Op-ed by Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw in the Guardian, 'We shall not shelter Killers'
Article in The Guardian 'Straw proposes new powers to prosecute war criminals in Britain'
Article in The Sun 'War Criminals to Face Justice'
Article in The Times 'Straw to close legal loophole used by fugitive war criminals'
Op-ed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald QC, 'Britain, a refuge for the unspeakably evil', in The Times
Article in The Guardian,'War Crime Suspects may see UK Immunity Loophole Closed'
Article in the Rwanda New Times, 'Aegis Trust pushes for UK Genocide Law Amendment'
Article on BBC News online, 'Call to close Genocide loophole'
Article on Sky News online, 'Report says UK a safe haven for war criminals'
Article in the Daily Telegraph, 'War criminals living in the UK with impunity'
Article in The Metro, 'Britain a Safe Haven for War Crimes Suspects'
Article in The Daily Express, 'Britain a Haven for War Criminals'
Op-ed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald QC, in the Guardian
Letter in the Sunday Times by Lord Falconer, Baroness Kennedy and Sir Ken Macdonald QC
Transcript of the BBC File on 4 radio documentary, 'Torturers in the UK'.
Article on BBC online, 'Rwanda accused win court case'
Article in the Independent, 'Genocide suspects freed after court rules they would not get fair trial'
Footage of BBC Newsnight item, 'Is the UK a haven for suspected war criminals?'
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