The executive disregarded the people of South Africa when it decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, the DA argued in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday. “Government had to involve the public in such a fundamental matter involving human rights,” advocate Steven Budlender told the court. Budlender[…]
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda has given the strongest indication yet that plans by some African countries to withdraw from the Rome Statute will in no way affect her ongoing investigations into alleged war crimes. She has vowed to keep going after perpetrators of atrocities. Fatou[…]
The US may have committed war crimes of torture, cruel treatment and rape, when it interrogated dozens of people in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2014, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said. The International Criminal Court’s preliminary probe of the US armed forces and CIA activities in Afghanistan between 2003 and[…]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has spoken to President Jacob Zuma telephonically, urging him to reconsider South Africa’s plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. South Africa and Burundi have officially notified the UN of their intent to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the 1998 treaty establishing The Hague-based[…]
African academics, civil and government representatives have welcomed African nations’s decision to exit the International Criminal Court. Delegates from over 29 African states are gathered in Centurion to try and find lasting solutions to Africa’s challenges. The programme has debated A d perceptions of bias against Africans levelled against the[…]
African People’s Convention (APC) Leader, Themba Godi, has welcomed cabinet’s decision to start the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC). This follows the announcement that was made by Justice Minister Michael Masutha on Friday. Masutha has already informed the National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete and National Council[…]
South Africa has formally requested to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to a document seen by Reuters news agency on Thursday. The move comes as several African countries have expressed concern that The Hague-based court has tried mostly African leaders. Last year, South Africa said it planned[…]
Sudan’s government has carried out at least 30 likely chemical weapons attacks in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur since January using what two experts concluded was a probable blister agent, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The rights group estimated that up to 250 people may have died as a[…]
Down an unpaved road near the mosque of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Mustafa al-Louh stepped out of his home into the chilly night air. “There was no reason for them to bomb us,” he told Al Jazeera. “We never threatened the Israeli state in any way.” During[…]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Thursday it will give South Africa more time to explain why it defied an order to arrest Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, extending the deadline until a Pretoria court finalises the case. The Hague-based court’s decision comes after it originally gave Pretoria until October[…]
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