International Criminal Court

The UK is now facing a proper hearing in the international court over claims that its troops unlawfully killed and mistreated Iraqi citizens during the 2003-2011 War.

Denial of genocide and war crimes will become a criminal offense in Serbia.

This will be the case if final judgments reached either by a court in Serbia, or the International Criminal Court (ICC), establish that these acts had taken place.

Russia does not intend to ratify the Rome Statute, the basic document establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC).

TASS is reporting this on Wednesday, citing "the relevant resolution signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and posted on the government’s legal information web portal."

Fatou Bensouda - Photo: ICC

BELGRADE - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court said they have "reasonable basis" to believe the United States committed "war crimes" by torturing prisoners in Afghanistan, RFE/RL reported.

Gambia has notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which will take effect on Nov. 10, 2017, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said on Nov. 14, making it the third country to quit The Hague-based tribunal. 

BELGRADE - French President Francois Hollande has suggested Russia could face war crimes charges over its bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo, BBC reports.

Mr Hollande told French TV this could take place in the International Criminal Court (ICC). He also said he might refuse to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is due to visit France next week.

Judges at the International Criminal Court Jan. 27 gave its prosecutor a green light to launch a new inquiry into allegations of war crimes during a brief but bloody 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered July 16 its chief prosecutor to review a decision not to probe Israel?s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, saying ?errors were made.?

South Africa said June 25 it may withdraw from the International Criminal Court after an outcry over the government's refusal to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on genocide charges.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and war crimes, fled from an African Union summit meeting last Monday before the conference ended. The South African High Court was going to order him arrested and handed over to the ICC, but the South African government let him fly out of a military airport near Pretoria.