The ICC’s chief prosecutor has called on the court to make a complaint to the UN about Libya’s failure to hand over war crimes suspect Saif al-Islam.
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/ 5 November 2009
The ICC prosecutor arrived in Kenya on Thursday for talks on trying those behind last year’s post-poll violence, which claimed 1 500 lives.
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will never sign a peace agreement so international efforts should focus instead on arresting him.
The ICC said on Tuesday it was looking closely at charges child soldiers have been used by militias in Sudan’s Darfur region.
The ICC will announce on Wednesday whether it will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
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/ 24 February 2009
Darfur’s strongest rebel group said on Tuesday it would refocus efforts to topple the Sudanese president should the ICC issue a warrant for his arrest
A coalition of lawyers, academics and NGOs has begun openly to criticise the competence of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
China expressed ”grave concern” on Tuesday after the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president with genocide in Darfur.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor looks poised to seek the arrest of Sudan’s president on Monday for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is widely expected to seek the arrest on Monday of the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir.
Accusing Sudan’s ”entire state apparatus” of involvement in crimes in Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments next month against senior Khartoum officials.
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court charges that ”the whole state apparatus” of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in the Darfur region, linking the government directly with the feared janjaweed militia.
The Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, is headed for a confrontation with the International Criminal Court after saying he will not hand over to The Hague the leaders of his country’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army indicted for war crimes. Museveni said Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and his commanders will instead be brought before ”traditional” Ugandan courts.
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/ 24 February 2008
Nine months after the first arrest warrants were issued for those suspected of being behind atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region, the chief international prosecutor believes he has the masterminds in his sights. International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has vowed to target the most senior people behind the violence.
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/ 18 October 2007
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday transferred a militia chief to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face war-crimes charges, including sexual enslavement and using child soldiers. Germain Katanga (29), who once led the Forces for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri, was flown out of Kinshasa early on Thursday.
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/ 21 September 2007
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Thursday challenged the United Nations and its members to break their silence on two men he charged with war crimes in Darfur. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said too little attention had been paid to his arrest warrants, an issue not on the agenda of the talks.