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12 Feb Sudan Agrees to Send Al Bashir to the ICC: What Now for the Law?
...termed “the wasteland of academic overproduction,” have been written on the subject – and I must confess I am one of the more culpable in this area, though after the Appeals Chamber judgment I had promised not to write ever again on the subject of Al Bashir (a promise I am now breaking). Several court decisions by the different chambers of the ICC and domestic courts have been handed down on whether there was a duty to arrest Mr Al Bashir at the time he was head of State of...
02 Dec When a Preliminary Examination Closes, a New Era Opens: The OTP’s Innovative Support for Transitional Justice in Colombia
determine the criminal responsibility of persons of interest to the OTP in order to prevent ICC intervention. Furthermore, such inquiries must sufficiently mirror the case under investigation in The Hague. This means that there must be a considerable overlap between the incidents being investigated at the international and domestic levels. Failure to meet such stringent requirements, which Heller (2016) has long viewed as contrary to the rationale of complementarity, would allow the ICC to enter a finding of admissibility. Thus, the Court could exercise its jurisdiction in lieu of national...
29 Nov ArcGIS & Hearsay: Challenges of Incorporating New Technologies into Existing Evidentiary Frameworks
...conveying evidence. Hearsay Concerns & Mapping Tools Before the ICC Open-source information has been included in international criminal trials from their inception, with the introduction of video evidence documenting Nazi concentration camps being shown during the Nuremberg Trials. The ICTY cases of Prosecutor v. Kristić and The Prosecutor v. Mladić, the OTP incorporated satellite imagery, in addition to photo and video evidence, in its case before the Trial Chamber. In recent decades, courtrooms at the ICC have already hosted numerous technological advancements. For example, in Prosecutor v. Ntaganda, Prosecutor v....
15 Feb Spirituality and Duress: Local Culture Beliefs at the International Criminal Court
[Dr. Sigurd D’hondt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä (Finland). Dr. Juan-Pablo Peréz-León-Acevedo and Dr. Fabio Ferraz-de-Almeida are researchers associated with the project reported on here, and Elena Barrett is a PhD candidate at the department.] Introduction On 4 February 2021, Trial Chamber IX (TC-IX) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Dominic Ongwen of 61 charges corresponding to crimes against humanity and war crimes, by far the largest number in the ICC’s history. On 6 May 2021, he was sentenced...22 Apr OPCD Report on Gaddafi’s Situation in Libya
yet offers a number of useful tidbits of information about Saif’s attitude toward the ICC: 33. [Redacted]. The details of ICC proceedings therefore appeared irrelevant to him, as his primary concern is his security in Libya. He would, however, prefer to be under the custody of the ICC in The Hague, rather than being detained in the current conditions, or transferred to Tripoli. 34. It is not correct that he informed the Libyan authorities that he did not wish to meet with any officials from the ICC. 35. Mr. Gaddafi...
10 Apr Communication to the ICC Concerning the Situation in Türkiye: Complementarity Must be a Positive Addition, Not an Excuse
some attention was paid to the Bangladesh/Myanmar case, wherein it was stated that transboundary crimes could fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC, if one or more elements of the crime were committed on the territory of a state party. Doing so, the press release perhaps gave the impression that most of the crimes brought under the jurisdiction of the ICC were partly committed on the Turkish territory. In reality that is not the case. From the approximately 1200 victims, only for 10 of them the crime was started in...07 Sep How Not To Argue Libya Should Prosecute Gaddafi (Updated)
...extent to which local judges and chambers could/should be used if the ICC were move to a place such as Libya. The ICC wasn't set up to be a hybrid tribunal, but having local judges would essentially transform the Court into a temporary hybrid tribunal, no? If this is what is being suggested (I gather as much from your article as well as Kaye's post), then why not simply argue that the ICC should have the ability to transform into a hybrid tribunal when appropriate, or something to that effect?...12 Jul The ICC v. Peace? The Ugandan Standoff Continues
seems to think the ICC should arrest the LRA leaders, rather than Uganda itself. This is becoming a nearly impossible situation for the ICC. They plainly cannot withdraw the arrest warrants without serious criticism among their key supporters. But the ICC does not have the ability to actually arrest the wanted LRA leaders (indeed, this is why the Ugandan government is offering peace talks in the first place). Nor can the ICC grant amnesty and assure the LRA that they will never be subject to future arrests. What a mess!...