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    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Peter Hain
      The time for instituting a new global corruption court is now

      Kleptocrats who rob developing countries need to be held accountable

      A blue sign for the International Criminal Court sits in front of two modern cube buildings
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      South Africa
      Russia threatened to ‘declare war’ over enforcing Putin arrest warrant

      South Africa president in dilemma over summit invite in face of ICC war crimes indictment

      Russian president Vladimir Putin, right, met South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      News in-depthSouth Africa
      Ramaphosa’s ICC gaffe underscores S African quandary over Putin invite

      Russian leader’s attendance at a Brics summit in August with a warrant against him would create a headache for Pretoria

      Vladimir Putin and Cyril Ramaphosa
    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      S Africa backtracks on pulling out of ICC after Putin warrant

      U-turn adds to diplomatic tension over Russian president’s invitation to Brics summit in August

      Cyril Ramaphosa
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      War crimes prosecutor will travel to London next week

      International Criminal Court’s Karim Khan is preparing first arrest warrants for alleged crimes committed in Ukraine

      ICC prosecutor Karim Khan
    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Europe Express
      Why rushing to document war crimes in Ukraine poses problems Premium content

      International Criminal Court has limited capacity in sifting through ‘deluge of information’

      Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha to be taken to a morgue for investigation
    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Dutch seek more support for ICC’s probe into Russian war crimes

      Ukraine conflict is a challenge for underfunded International Criminal Court, says foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra

      Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra, left, with Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky
    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Retreating Russian troops leave trail of carnage on Kyiv’s outskirts

      Ukrainian forces and NGOs start gathering evidence of atrocities in recently liberated cities of Irpin and Bucha

      A woman walks past destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha
    • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Holding Russia to account for war crimes

      Efforts to create a tribunal to examine a crime of aggression have merit

      People stand outside a maternity hospital hit by Russian shelling in Mariupol. The threat of a tribunal could bolster Kyiv’s negotiating hand, and possibly deter further atrocities
    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      International Criminal Court to investigate alleged war crimes by Russia in Ukraine

      Volodymyr Zelensky says attacks are being carried out by a ‘terrorist state’

      A rubble-filled square near the local government headquarters in Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was hit by Russian shelling
    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      Philippe Sands
      Putin’s use of military force is a crime of aggression

      His invasion of Ukraine poses a grave challenge, and one that sanctions and financial measures alone cannot address 

      Black and white 1914 photo of Russian soldiers, watched by a small boy, marching into Lemberg, now Lviv in Ukraine
    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      Venezuela
      ICC to investigate Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity

      President Nicolás Maduro says he will respect the decision even though he disagrees with it

      Venezuelan protests: a UN mission reported last year that Nicolás Maduro and his top ministers were responsible for probable crimes against humanity, including more than 5,000 extrajudicial killings since 2014
    • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
      Sudan
      Sudan to send ex-leader Omar al-Bashir to face trial for alleged genocide

      Former strongman faces extradition to ICC to answer charge of crimes against humanity in Darfur

      Omar al-Bashir in a defendant’s cage during the opening of his corruption trial in Khartoum in 2019.
    • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
      Rachman Review podcast24 min listen
      Ecocide: a new weapon in the fight to save the planet

      Could a proposed law at the International Criminal Court deter eco criminals?

    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      Myanmar
      Aung San Suu Kyi representatives hire law firm to track junta crimes

      Volterra Fietta gathers evidence of alleged killings and torture of Myanmar regime’s opponents

      An anti-coup protester in Yangon
    • Monday, 15 March, 2021
      Mary Robinson
      Palestinian peace must rest on international law

      ICC decision to investigate Hamas and Israel has implications for both sides

      Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian protesters. The ICC’s ruling opens the door to investigations on both sides of the conflict
    • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      ICC to probe Israel and Hamas for war crimes

      Investigation expected to focus on deaths of civilians in Gaza Strip and Israel during 2014 war

      A destroyed apartment building in the Gaza Strip in 2014. Israel bombed the Gaza Strip for 51 days that year
    • Saturday, 6 February, 2021
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      International court sets stage for trial over 2014 Gaza war crime claims

      ICC ruling, which allows stateless Palestine to delegate its jurisdiction over allegations of misconduct, enrages Israel

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      US under fire over sanctions on top ICC officials

      Move escalates Washington campaign against court’s probe into alleged Afghanistan war crimes

    • Friday, 12 June, 2020
      International Criminal Court hits back at US over sanctions

      Tribunal calls Washington’s move an ‘attack against the interests of victims of atrocity crimes’

      ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had launched an investigation into alleged crimes committed by US forces, Taliban and Afghan national troops in Afghanistan
    • Thursday, 11 June, 2020
      US turns up pressure on ICC with new sanctions

      Trump goes after court for ‘politically motivated’ probes of US and its allies

    • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
      Rwanda
      Hunt for one of Africa’s most-wanted men ends in a Paris suburb

      Rwandan fugitive Félicien Kabuga had been pursued for two decades over his role in 1994 genocide

    • Thursday, 5 March, 2020
      Mike Pompeo bristles at ICC’s Afghanistan war crimes probe

      International Criminal Court decides to investigate alleged crimes committed by US troops

      US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media, in the Press Briefing Room, at the Department of State in March 5, 2020 in Washington,DC. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday attacked as "reckless" a ruling by international war crimes judges that a probe into wartime abuses in Afghanistan, including possible atrocities by American forces, must go ahead. "This is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body," Pompeo told a news conference following the ruling at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP) (Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Sunday, 22 December, 2019
      US threats over Afghan war probe ‘troubling’, says ICC

      President hits back at Washington decision to revoke prosecutor’s visa

      THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - DECEMBER 02: Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of International Criminal Court makes a speech during the 18th session of the ICCs Assembly of States Parties, held in The Hague, Netherlands on December 02, 2019. (Photo by Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
    • Friday, 12 April, 2019
      ICC declines to probe alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan

      US had threatened to cut off visas for anyone linked to the investigation

      FILE- This Jan. 12, 2016, file photo shows the exterior view of the headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Judges at the International Criminal Court have rejected a request by the court's prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan and alleged crimes by U.S. forces linked to the conflict. In a decision Friday, judges said an investigation "would not serve the interests of justice" because an investigation and prosecution are unlikely to be successful because of a lack of cooperation. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
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