The European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) on July 3 announced the launch of the International Center for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression (ICPA). According to organizers, the ICPA is meant to serve as a “central database for evidence collected against Russia and other perpetrators of aggression.” At a press briefing marking…
EU Opens Center to Aid Prosecution of Alleged Russian ‘Crimes of Aggression’
July 6, 2023
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Pentagon Hindering Investigation of Alleged Russian War-Crimes in Ukraine: US Ambassador
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is withholding valuable information from the International Criminal Court (ICC), hindering the court’s investigation of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, according to a key U.S. ambassador. At a Wednesday Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack testified that she believes the…
South African Government Working on ICC ‘Escape Route’ for Putin
JOHANNESBURG—Senior members of the South African government have told The Epoch Times they are working hard to make it possible for Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit the country, free of concern about being arrested. Putin is supposed to attend the summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries in Cape…
Philippines’ Marcos Cuts Off Contact With ICC Over Probe Into Drug-War Killings
March 29, 2023
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday that he had decided to cut ties with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the court denied the government’s appeal to cease a probe into his predecessor’s brutal war on drugs. “At this point, we essentially are disengaging from any contact, from any communication,” Marcos told reporters, according…
International Arrest Warrant Issued for Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been formally accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes and faces an arrest warrant, which the Kremlin considers illegitimate. ICC president Piotr Hofmanski said in a video statement Friday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Putin for the “alleged war crimes of deportation of children from Ukrainian occupied…
ICC Judges Approve Request to Reopen Probe Into Philippines’ Drug War Killings
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Thursday that it had granted its prosecutor’s request to reopen a probe into the alleged killings and rights abuses committed in the Philippines’ drug war campaign. The ICC judges concluded that the Philippine government failed to provide any evidence to support its claims that it was conducting concrete investigations…
Joly Ups Cash for International Criminal Court Sex-Crime Probes, as Russia Rift Grows
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is announcing another $1 million for the International Criminal Court. The money is meant to support the court’s investigations into sexual and gender-based violence everywhere, as Canada helps that agency look into possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Joly is speaking in Poland at a summit of the Organization for…
Parents of Reuters Photojournalist Killed in Afghanistan Bring Taliban to Court
The parents of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan last year, have launched legal action against the Taliban terrorist group at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, 38, was killed on July 16, 2021 as the terrorist group gained control of the country. Siddiqui was accompanying an Afghan special…
Putin Has Committed War Crimes in Ukraine: UK’s Johnson
March 2, 2022
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. At the Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on March 2, Johnson said, “What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin’s regime in the use of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent…
International Criminal Court to Investigate Alleged War Crimes in Ukraine Amid Russia Invasion
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday that his office will seek court approval to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. Karim A. A. Khan wrote in a statement that there is a “reasonable basis to believe” that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in…
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