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On September 18, 2024, Judge Tomoko Akane, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Catherine De Bolle, the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), signed a memorandum of understanding on secure communication and a liaison...

Swedish prosecutors charged a woman on Thursday with crimes against humanity for acts in Syria against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority between 2014 and 2016, the first time the Nordic country has brought this charge. The woman, a 52-year-old Swedish citizen identified in the...

On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the Security Council that the attack on Hezbollah communications devices violated international law and could constitute a war crime. A senior UN official also told the Security Council that further violence between Israel and...

A year after Azerbaijan’s invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, a complaint accusing Azerbaijani officials of crimes against humanity has been filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of two of the victims. The complaint, submitted by the legal team representing victims, includes...

Venezuela committed a crime against humanity with its persecution of dissidents after July’s election, according to a new United Nations report.  The refusal of the government-controlled electoral authority to publish proof of Maduro’s win on July 28 sparked nationwide demonstrations, which in turn...

The Bosnian state prosecution has charged Serif Patkovic with violating the Geneva Conventions by allegedly killing an injured prisoner of war, a Croatian Defence Council officer, during the Bosnian war in 1993. At the time, Patkovic was commander of the Bosnian Army’s 7th Muslim Brigade's Second...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he and International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan had discussed how to ensure that arrest warrants for Russian officials wanted for war crimes in Ukraine are implemented. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for several Russian...

Turkey is seeking international arrest warrants for Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Turkish-American citizen in the occupied West Bank. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot while protesting the expansion of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Israel has taken responsibility for the death...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that the confirmation of charges hearing in the case against Joseph Kony has been postponed to ensure proper procedure and evidence presentation. Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, which has been at war with the Ugandan government...

The Australian government will revoke military honors from their senior officers in response to allegations that the Australian special forces in Afghanistan committed war crimes. The step in command accountability comes four years after Maj Gen Paul Brereton presented yearslong investigation...