International Criminal Court News

Duterte arrived on Wednesday in the Netherlands after his arrest the previous morning on an ICC warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over deadly anti-drug crackdowns he oversaw while in office.

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Putin Russia said that the warrant holds "no meaning" for the country Russia stated that is not a member of Rome Statute of ICC

Elite Kenyan security forces on Sunday killed a man at the home of Deputy President William Ruto, ending a 20-hour siege that left one officer dead and another wounded, security officials said.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, whose whereabouts are not known, was last seen by an independent international observer in June 2014.

A new UN body tasked with identifying individuals guilty of atrocities in Syria should start work shortly, a key step towards holding war crimes suspects to account, the UN rights chief said on Monday. 

A Filipino lawyer has filed a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of mass murder and crimes against humanity, the media reported on Tuesday.

David Scheffer, the UN Secretary-General`s envoy to the tribunal, said leaders in countries such as the Philippines, as well as the Islamic State (IS) group, must "take note" of the verdict.  

Angelina Jolie recently appeared in a recorded a video for the `International Criminal Court`

A UN spokesman is calling on countries thinking of leaving the International Criminal Court to instead work within the system to improve the court.

The decision followed a dispute last year when Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited the country for an African Union summit despite facing an ICC arrest warrant over alleged war crimes.

South Africa`s Justice Minister Michael Masutha is saying that the ICC`s obligations are inconsistent with domestic laws giving sitting leaders diplomatic immunity, reports the Guardian.

Israel is to host a working group of the International Criminal Court as it weighs whether to probe alleged war crimes in the 2014 Gaza war, an Israeli official said Friday.

Ten of the 12 candidates vying to be the next UN Secretary-General took part in live televised debates on Tuesday.

Judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to 18 years in jail for a series of brutal rapes and murders in Central African Republic over a decade ago.

Bemba, 53, was found guilty in March of five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his private army called the Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC).

Democratic Republic of Congo`s Jean-Pierre Bemba became the highest-ranking politician convicted by the international war crimes court on Monday, when it judged him responsible for a campaign of rape and murder in Central African Republic.

The White House on Thursday said it was ready to support an investigation by the International Criminal Court into alledged genocide carried out by the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday accused a Malian jihadist of war crimes for "a callous" attack on the world heritage site of Timbuktu.

The International Criminal Court on Thursday unveiled 70 charges of war crimes against notorious Lord`s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen.