let's bring in our guest now in sarajevo toby cadman an international human rights lawyer on skype from westerville slim robbie sable professor of international law at hebrew university and a former legal advisor to israel's foreign ministry and also on skype from chicago ali abu naima co-founder of electronic intifada an independent online news publication focusing on palestine welcome to you all gentlemen thank you for being on inside story toby cadman i'm going to start with you to help us understand some of the legal last auspex here 1st fatou bensouda the chief prosecutor has asked for a ruling on the i.c.c. s territorial jurisdiction a state jurisdiction for the i.c.c. to investigate here thank you yes so 1st of all. the position the prosecutor has to . to to consider or to seek a ruling or a patrol chamber all the time. torah limits of the jurisdiction of palestine obviously became a a state party and so the i.c.c. has jurisdiction and a number of groups have filed requests for the prosecutor to to open investigation our group being one of them we have filed several so the questi

let's bring in toby cadman now he's an international human rights lawyer who has followed this case closely toby thank you for joining us what do you make of this verdict and what can you tell us about the people who have been sentenced to death. i think you know i think one of the one of the concerns that we have always expressed was that this was likely to be much more white wash that it wasn't really a credible investigation that it wasn't holding those individuals who were ultimately responsible when it was not. charging them and we've already heard today that 2 senior officials a syrian qatari what were not charged and that both individuals who are closely connected to the marmot been summoned so. i think it is disappointing although not entirely surprising but it is certainly something that the u.s. special report i was kind of on had warned about having justice which was affectively a whitewash that u.n. report you're referring to it did implicate people far higher up in the kingdom the crown prince himself of having known about this killing why hasn't there been an international inv

for more on the story we can speak to ca toby cadman he's an international human rights lawyer who has followed this case closely toby thank you for joining us what do you make of this verdict. well i think it is very disappointing i don't think anybody should be altogether surprised as it was very clear that this really was going to be a whitewash in the very beginning and i think what's most disappointing is that 2 senior officials who were alleged to have been close to the moment been somebody. directly involved with the carrying out faulty execution and effectively the clean up operation where you one of them was charged earned and acquitted and one of them was not even charged so i don't think we can say that justice has been so. and it is clearly an attempt to. appease or attempt to these international community that action has been taken we saw the united nations issue a special report to that implicated members of the royal family very high up including the crown prince himself tell me why hasn't there been an international investigation into this case. well obviously the their