Cairo Trials

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The Cairo Trials were a series of AATO, and later, Western Sphere Hegemony-led war crimes trials for events leading up to and including the Third World War. Arranged as part of the process of including the Free Market Block in the negotiations for the Baghdad Agreement, which would stipulate that the FMB comply with what became the Western Sphere Hegemony Court of Military Law and submit to an investigation into accusations of war crimes levied against them by the Eurasian Soviet during their own defense in the Madagascar Trials.

Convictions were not rare - the Free Market Block was especially egregious in its violations of the rights of prisoners of war - but the Cairo Trials were largely overshadowed by the Madagascar Trials given the sheer extend of Eurasian Soviet war crimes. This changed beginning in 2044, when AATO officials began their prosecution of the Defense Research Initiative's secret bioweapons development programme, Project Opus, which involved human experimentation on both volunteer and captive subjects in the pursuit of "next generation" Lorica control systems. Most participants in the programme were convicted, which lead to the high-profile in-courtroom suicide of then-DRI Director Jessop Vale, who had lead the project.

Convicts under the Cairo Trials posed a special security risk, and were themselves potentially in danger depending on where they were imprisoned. AATO constructed the Sydney Facility for this special purpose, in a manner similar to the European prison they constructed for Soviet war criminals, the London Facility.