Professor Gabor Rona, Director of CLIHHR's Law and Armed Conflict Project, submitted an amicus brief to the International Criminal Court (ICC) responding to the prosecutor's request for an investigation into international crimes arising out of Afghanistan. A Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) had rejected the prosecutor's request to investigate CIA war crimes arising from secret detention and torture of detainees at "black sites" in Poland, a State Party to the ICC Treaty. The PTC held that those events lacked sufficient nexus to the armed conflict in Afghanistan. Rona argues to the Appellate Chamber that both the Geneva Conventions and the ICC statute meant to include conduct between parties to an armed conflict (the US and alleged Taliban or Al Qaeda "enemy combatants") as "war crimes," even if the conduct occurs outside the state in which hostilities occur, so long as it is associated with the armed conflict. Read the full brief here.