Independent tribunals

When official institutions will not examine a question, citizens sometimes convene their own tribunal. They have no legal power. Their weight comes from evidence, openness and the people who sit on them. Several, including the Belmarsh and Gaza tribunals, trace their lineage to the Russell–Sartre Tribunal of 1966 on the Vietnam War.

Each record below sets out who convened the tribunal, what it asked, what it found, and its legal status. Findings are attributed to the tribunal and linked to its own published words.

• concluded · #peoples-tribunal #israel-palestine #uk #inquiries #london
  The Gaza Tribunal: Inquiry into British Complicity
  A two-day UK tribunal at Church House, Westminster, held after a bill for an official inquiry stalled. It concluded that the British government failed its obligation to prevent genocide.
• concluded · #peoples-tribunal #press-freedom #extradition #united-states #london
  The Belmarsh Tribunal
  A travelling people's tribunal named after the London prison where Julian Assange was held, convened while he fought extradition to the United States.
• concluded · #peoples-tribunal #genocide #israel-palestine #london #sarajevo #istanbul
  The Gaza Tribunal (international)
  An international people's tribunal that sat in Sarajevo and Istanbul and whose Jury of Conscience delivered a moral judgment that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
• concluded · #peoples-tribunal #genocide #crimes-against-humanity #china #london
  Uyghur Tribunal
  A London people's tribunal that found, beyond reasonable doubt, that China committed genocide against Uyghurs — through measures to prevent births, not mass killing.

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