these courts. The prosecutors, totaling about thirty, were appointed

by the Chief of the Prosecution Division upon approval of the scuRe
About two-thirds of the prosecutors are military judge ‘Advocates,

ranging in rank—from Captain to full Colonel, the other third are

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civilian prosecutors, appointed specially for the purpose. Their =
duties have been to supervise the investigation of cases assigned to
them by the Chief of the Prosecution Division, prepare the charges,
and present the government's case at trial. In terms of the work load
and the sense of urgency to complete these trials with the greatest
possible dispatch, the Prosecution Division jis considerably under-
manned, the prosecutors working both in the evening and on weekends.

c. (U) Jurisdiction:

The Revolutionary Courts have jurisdiction, without territorial
limitation, over only those crimes delimited jin the three ex post facto
laws discussed below.

The "Special Law on the Punishment of Specified Crimes”
declares several different types of activity to be criminal, setting
forth a maximum penalty of death and a minimum of either five or ten
years imprisonment for each offense. The punishments for certain

offenses, already outlined by the Criminal Code (Articles 164-167,

250, 257, and 366), were increased by this law if committed in connec~

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tion with elections to the National Assembly. This category of

ee

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Law 630, Art. 6.

Lieve 633 (22 June 1961).

ae 633, Art. 2.