After the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on Friday for war crimes in Ukraine, one wonders if the Russian president could one day end up on trial in The Hague.
What is the procedure?
123 countries that signed the Rome Statute are required to execute arrest warrants Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, who also has an arrest warrant.
The arrest took place if one of the two travels to one of these countries.
“That’s true,” the district attorney told AFP. ICCKarim Khan, when asked Vladimir Putin could have been stopped.
But International Criminal Court founded after the adoption of the Rome Statute, does not have its own police force.
Fulfillment of mandates ‘depends on international cooperation’, says president ICCPolish lawyer Piotr Hofmansky.
Matthew Waksman, professor at Columbia Law School, said this is “a very important milestone for ICCbut what are the chances that Vladimir Putin being arrested one day is not enough.”
For example, the former leader of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, visited several African states, despite the fact that ICC an arrest warrant was issued for him.
What are the obstacles?
The key issue is that neither Russia nor Ukraine are members ICC.
The international tribunal can judge only now Vladimir Putin because Ukraine recognized the jurisdiction ICC in the current context.
Russia has already rejected the arrest warrant and said it will not cooperate.
“Russia, like a number of states, does not recognize the jurisdiction of this court, and therefore, from the point of view of the law, the decisions of this court are void,” said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
It is unlikely that Vladimir Putin go to the dock “unless there is a regime change in Russia,” said Cecily Rose, assistant professor of international law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
Are there precedents?
Khan stated that several political and military leaders were on trial for war crimes.
“There are many examples of people who thought they were above the law” and who “ended up in court,” the chief prosecutor said. ICC.
The lawyer cited the cases of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, Liberian Charles Taylor, Radovan Karadzic or Ratko Mladic.
ICC convicted Taylor, a former military commander turned leader of Liberia, of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2012.
Milosevic died in his cell in The Hague in 2006 while on trial on charges of genocide at a tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic was eventually captured in 2008 and convicted of genocide by the same court, while his warlord Mladic was arrested in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison.
Are there other options?
ICC cannot try suspects in absentia. But Khan explained that the court has other methods to move cases forward.
An example is the hearing held to confirm the allegations against Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, who started a bloody rebellion in Uganda despite the fact that the defendant is at large. (According to AFP)
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