REFERENCE: Point 6 - The Trials of War Criminals (Part II)

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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vladimir-putin-south-africa-summit-international-arrest-warrant_uk_64b902d6e4b08cd259daaf82

As South Africa is part of the International Criminal Court, it would be expected to arrest the Russian president if he visited for the Pretoria summit of BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, between 22 and 24 August (2023).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

Finally, the General Assembly convened a conference in Rome in June 1998, with the aim of finalizing the treaty to serve as the Court's statute. On 17 July 1998, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted by a vote of 120 to seven, with 21 countries abstaining. The seven countries that voted against the treaty were China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, the U.S., and Yemen.

 

https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/329151-dual-citizenship

Officially the law doesn’t ban dual citizenship. It forbids state officials, law enforcement employees, and judges to have it, but for the general population the law is more relaxed. According to the Russian Constitution (Article 62), a citizen of Russia may be a citizen of a foreign state (dual citizenship) which doesn’t derogate his/her rights and freedoms and doesn’t free him/her from the obligations stipulated by Russian citizenship.

 

https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works

he Court's founding treaty, called the Rome Statute, grants the ICC jurisdiction over four main crimes. First, the crime of genocide is characterised by the specific intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing its members or by other means: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Second, the ICC can prosecute crimes against humanity, which are serious violations committed as part of a large-scale attack against any civilian population. The 15 forms of crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute include offences such as murder, rape, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, enslavement – particularly of women and children, sexual slavery, torture, apartheid and deportation. Third, war crimes which are grave breaches of the Geneva conventions in the context of armed conflict and include, for instance, the use of child soldiers; the killing or torture of persons such as civilians or prisoners of war; intentionally directing attacks against hospitals, historic monuments, or buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes. Finally, the fourth crime falling within the ICC's jurisdiction is the crime of aggression. It is the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, integrity or independence of another State. The definition of this crime was adopted through amending the Rome Statute at the first Review Conference of the Statute in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010.

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/02/ukraine-countries-request-icc-war-crimes-inquiry

Ukraine is not a member of the ICC, but it accepted the court’s jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed on its territory since November 2013, and in doing so, the obligation to cooperate with the court.

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/05/05/russia-law-targets-international-criminal-court

Russia’s adoption on April 28, 2023, of a law criminalizing assistance to foreign and international bodies is an affront to victims of serious crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The law prohibits cooperation with international bodies, “to which Russia is not a party,” such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) or any ad hoc international tribunals that may be established to prosecute Russian officials and military personnel, as well as foreign courts. Such cooperation is punishable by up to five years in prison.

 

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work/sentencing/

If the defendant is convicted in a criminal case, the judge will set a date for sentencing. Before that time, a pre-sentence investigation will take place to help the judge determine the appropriate sentence from the range of possible sentences set out in the statutes. The pre-sentence investigation may consider the defendant's prior criminal record, family situation, health, work record, and any other relevant factor.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-asks-u-n-court-to-condemn-russia-c89175db

Ukraine asked the International Court of Justice to declare Russia in violation of treaties against terrorism financing and racial discrimination for actions dating from 2014 in occupied Crimea and the Kremlin-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions. .. Ukraine filed the case in January 2017, five years before the outright invasion that has dominated headlines since last year.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/dark-history-why-argentina-s-death-flight-plane-is-a-hot-topic-once-again/ar-AA1clD3w

During the Dirty War, activists would be clandestinely rounded up and then conveniently disappear without a trace. The military junta did this using what is now called "death flights." The prisoners would be told that they were being transferred to camps in southern Argentina and that they needed to be vaccinated beforehand. Rather than giving them an injection that would protect them, they were given a shot of Sodium Pentothal, a barbiturate used in general anesthesia to render a person unconscious. They were then taken to an airfield, stripped, tied up, and bundled upon a plane. The aircraft would then take off, and once it was far enough out over the South Atlantic, the victims would be dumped into the ocean. Human rights group Amnesty International estimates that as many as 20,000 people died because of the death flights.

 

https://newcoldwar.org/text-of-the-minsk-2-ceasefire-agreement/

Provide pardon and amnesty by way of enacting a law that forbids persecution and punishment of persons in relation to events that took place in particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine.

 

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-prisoners-trial-mariupol-azov-1aecb8fa05a60372c88199e0fe00311d

More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers who were taken prisoner during fighting in Ukraine went on trial in southern Russia on Wednesday. The captured soldiers were members of the Azov battalion, an elite Ukrainian armed forces unit that fought Russian troops in the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol. Russia captured Mariupol last year after a three-month battle that reduced most of the city to smoldering ruins.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_2022_war_censorship_laws

The Russian 2022 Laws Establishing War Censorship and Prohibiting Anti-War Statements and Calls for Sanctions is a group of federal laws promulgated by the Russian government during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These laws establish administrative and criminal punishments for "discrediting" or dissemination of "unreliable information" about the Russian Armed Forces, other Russian state bodies and their operations, and the activity of volunteers aiding the Russian Armed Forces, and for calls to impose sanctions against Russia, Russian organizations and citizens.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-criminal-offense-duma-1684810

The Russian parliament has passed a law that criminalizes the distribution of "fake news" about the Russian military, with those convicted facing up to 15 years in prison.

 

https://www.discountmags.com/magazine/time-magazine-international-edition-july-3-2023-digital/in-this-issue/45830

Zelensky tends to take a softer line, insisting he can convince people in the occupied regions without the use of force or coercion. The ones who abetted the occupiers must face justice, he says, and under the laws against collaboration Zelensky signed last year, the penalties are stiff - up to 15 years in prison for the worst offenders. As for the rest of the people in these regions, Zelensky wants a chance to speak to them, if not in person then through television.

 

https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2023/12/20/the-truth-about-putins-shootdown

On November 17th 2022, eight years and four months after the crash, relatives, lawyers and journalists packed the courtroom to hear a verdict. MH17, the judges declared, had indeed been downed by a Buk fired from separatist-controlled territory and delivered from Russia. Messrs Girkin, Dubinsky and Kharchenko bore criminal responsibility for the death of the 298 people aboard; Mr Pulatov, a lower-ranking operative, did not. Russia, the judges said, had been a party to the conflict since 2014, despite its denials. In the courtroom, relatives embraced.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Girkin regained attention as a milblogger, taking a strong pro-war stance but criticizing the Russian military for what he saw as incompetence and "insufficiency". In October 2022, Girkin briefly joined a volunteer unit fighting against Ukrainian forces. In April 2023, Girkin, alongside some fellow Russian nationalists joined the Club of Angry Patriots, a hardline pro-war group. On 21 July 2023, Girkin was arrested by Russian authorities on charges of extremism.

 

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