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The first trial for atrocities committed in Darfur has opened at the International Criminal Court nearly 20 years after violence tore through the Sudanese region. A suspected former leader of the pro-government Janjaweed militia has been charged with 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman denies the charges. Sudanese human rights…
Britain’s Karim Khan has been sworn-in as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, facing huge challenges, including investigations into the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and the Philippines. Fifty-one years old Khan who is a former defence lawyer for the Hague-based tribunal, was elected by ICC member states to serve a nine-year tenure at the world’s only…
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said the probe would cover events in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since 2004 Last month, the Hague-based court ruled that it could exercise its criminal jurisdiction over the territories. Israel rejected…