DePaul international law expert heads report on crackdown in Bahrain
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(AP/Hasan Jamali)
A man passes a wall with pictures of jailed opposition figures and the word "steadfast" in Malkiya, Bahrain.
A preeminent international law expert, DePaul University’s Cherif Bassiouni helped create the International Criminal Court and has investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Afghanistan. He’s currently serving as president emeritus of DePaul University’s International Human Rights Law Institute.
The United Nations recently tapped him to examine human rights violations in Libya, but lately, Bassiouni has spent a lot of time in the tiny Gulf state of Bahrain.
On June 29, the kingdom set up an independent commission to examine the government crackdown on the majority Shiite opposition, following protests in February an...