and even more gruesome updates today: it looks like RSF members have been posting videos online of their conducts (potentially amounting to war crimes), including torturing people and setting villages on fire in Darfur www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sudanese rebels appear to be posting self-incriminating videos of torture and arson on social media

Footage that seems to show fighters glorifying abuse of prisoners with ‘little fear of consequences’ could be used in war crimes prosecutions

“Sudan's war has already killed tens of thousands of people, with some estimates as high as 150,000.” Lest not forget Sudan and Sudanese people!

Indeed! Thanks 🙂

Talking about criminalizing ecocide: this is a short video I recorded at Utrecht Uni (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.socialvimeo.com/988403899?sh...

CONCEPTUALIZING ECOCIDE KNOWLEDGE CLIPS 2024-2025

Knowledge clip 2: Addressing ecocide through criminal law: three fundamental issues Luigi Prosperi

UPDATE: Trial Chamber X convicted Al Hassan of some of multiple war crimes & crimes against humanity committed between 2 April 2012 - 29 January 2013 in Timbuktu (Mali), acquitted him re. sexual and gender-based related charges. Info + links to decision&dissenting ops www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Situation in Mali: Mr Al Hassan convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Timbuktu

(3) On 25 June, Pre-Trial Chamber II issued arrest warrants against Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu and Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov

On 24 June 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”), composed of Judge Rosario Salvatore Aitala, Presiding, Judge Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godínez and Judge Hayke...

(2) On 21 June, Pre-Trial Chamber I unsealed an arrest warrant against Iyad Ag Ghaly for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in northern Mali between January 2012 and January 2013. The arrest warrant had been issued in 2017. Further details: www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Situation in Mali: ICC unseals arrest warrant against Iyad Ag Ghaly

Today, 21 June 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”), at the request of the Prosecutor, made public an arrest warrant against Iyad Ag Ghaly for war crime...

[intlaw] While in the second part, I delved into the limitations of the current modes of liability, while also considering the mental element standard outlined in Article 30 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. You can find it here: www.uu.nl/en/news/pros...

Prosecuting Ecocide Before the International Criminal Court: Concrete Possibility or Long-Term Aspiration? (Part 2)

Unless the ICC reconsidered the mental element requirements for the existing crimes, the prosecution of people ‘most responsible’ for environmental harms would be (to put it mildly) an uphill struggle...

PART 2: "Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed" www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts

Keynote by Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights