Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T19:14:11.691Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

U.S. Navy Report Concludes That Iran's 2015 Capture of U.S. Sailors Violated International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2017

Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 110 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 802 - 804
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Dep’t of Thenavy, Iranian Capture of Riverine Command Boats (RCB) / Navy Sailors, Executive Summary 3–4 (June 29, 2016) [hereinafter Navy Report].

2 Id. at 1; see also U.S. Dep't of Defense Press Release, Department of Defense Press Briefing by Adm. Richardson on the Results of the Investigation into the Seizure of Two Riverine Boats and the Detention of 10 U.S. Navy Personnel by Iranian Forces in the Pentagon Briefing Room (June 30, 2016), at http://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/822039/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-adm-richardson-on-the-results-of-the-in.

3 Navy Report, supra note 1, at 1.

4 Id.

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id. at 17.

9 Id.

10 Id. at 80.

11 Id. at 18.

12 Id.

13 Id. at 3.

14 Id. at 19.

15 Id. at 20.

16 Id.

17 Id.

18 Id. at 19–20.

19 Iran Frees Captured US Marines, Fars News Agency (Jan. 13, 2016), at http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn_13941023000875.

20 U.S. Dep't of State Press Release, Daily Press Briefing (Jan. 13, 2016), at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2016/01/251198.htm.

21 Id.