Abstract: Following the tragic incident at September 11, 2001, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) started to modernize existing international conventions concerning unlawful interference against civil aviation. From 30 August to 10 September 2010, a diplomatic conference held in Beijing that led to the adoption of two international measures, namely, ''the Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation'' (Beijing Convention) and ''the Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft'' (Beijing Supplementary Protocol). These two international conventions introduce many new acts as an offence, namely: the use of civil aviation for transport, loading and discharge of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and similar substances; the use of civil aircraft as a lethal weapon to hit financial institutions, the use of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons for attacking civil aircraft; cyber-attacks against air navigation facilities with terrorist purposes.
Keywords: The Beijing Convention, aviation security, unlawful interference, civil aviation.
Title: Unlawful Interference under the 2010 Beijing Conventions
Author: Dr. Hedayatollah Shenasaei, Faramarz Shirvani
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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