International Law Demands Epstein Files Crimes Be Prosecuted
The crimes revealed in the Epstein Files may meet the threshold under international criminal law of crimes against humanity and must be prosecuted, say UN experts.
“Institutional gaslighting,” “serious compliance failures and botched redactions that exposed sensitive victim information,” “only one close associate under investigation,” are but a few of the reasons UN experts say the crimes revealed in the Epstein Files may meet the threshold under international criminal law of crimes against humanity and must be investigated.
They called out the beliefs behind these crimes as being “supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, extreme misogyny and the commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls from different parts of the world.”
Contrary to our own current government, which under Trump has minimized the harm in the Epstein files while releasing victim identifying information by ‘mistake’ while protecting potential predators, the UN experts say “these acts could amount to sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and femicide.”
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UN experts (and these people are actual human rights experts, unlike the people running the US DOJ currently) say:
Under international criminal law, crimes against humanity occur when acts such as sexual slavery, rape, enforced prostitution, trafficking, persecution, torture, or murder are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population with, with knowledge of the attack. The experts warned the components reported patterns may meet this threshold and these crimes must be prosecuted in all competent national and international courts.
These crimes must be investigated and prosecuted.
To fail to effectively investigate and prosecute, “including by complicity or acquiescence, where jurisdiction exists, risks undermining legal frameworks aimed at preventing and responding to violence against women and girls,” they warned.
“It is imperative that governments act decisively to hold perpetrators accountable,” the experts said. “No one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law.”
The UN experts’ comments can be your roadmap through the Epstein Files, which are being so politicized by politicians with an agenda and used by influencers for audience capture as to lose focus on the real issues.
The approach to the Epstein Files must be victim-centered rather than using the victims once again for whatever self-interest people have.
In fact, under international human rights, States are OBLIGATED “to prevent, investigate and punish violence against women and girls, including acts committed by private actors.”
Donald Trump might not care about women and girls, except as fodder to be used and abused for his own ego and violence, but there are international human rights experts who understand how closely tied violence against women and girls is to anti-democratic agendas.
