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Author: Marina Lostal

26 Oct

Prosecutor v. Al Mahdi: A Positive New Direction for the ICC?

[Marina Lostal is a Lecturer in International Law at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.] On 27 September 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) entered a conviction and sentence that marked several firsts in the history of the Court. It found the Accused - Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, guilty of the war crime of intentionally directing attacks...

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