Piracy and Marian Terrorism Perception on International Treaties

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Jaafar Kousha ¹ , Farhad Shaygan ²

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Received: 2015-07-06 Accepted : 2015-07-06 Published : 2011-07-23

Keywords: Sea, crime, Piracy, Marine Terrorism, Convention&#x0D, &#x0D,  ,

Abstract :

Unlike piracy and slave trade that were as the first instances of international crimes and world jurisprudence in combination with prosecuting and punishing those who committed them, there are some other international committed crimes in marines that have recently attracted the attentions of world community. Amongst different kinds of crimes according to the degree of importance as mentioned above and how the world copes with them by entering into the international treaties, two items of important crimes such as piracy, armed robbery against ships with marine terrorism have been considerably noticed. The spread of treaties to cope with the crimes mentioned above in territories beyond states’ jurisprudences were mainly focused on these discussions. This paper has also discussed the four conventions of Genoa (1958), marine laws (1982), Rome convention (1988) and attached protocol on navigation security accompanied by other international documents and those of regional and reciprocal documents.