The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an international arrest warrant for Russian president VladimirPutin for alleged war crimes regarding the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. Moneyweb UkkraineRussiaInvassion
The International Criminal Court has issued an international arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes regarding the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. Such acts are war crimes under two articles of the Rome Statute, which established the court. ICC arrest warrants against sitting heads of state are rare. Putin faces arrest if he sets foot in any of the 123 signatory states to the statute. Of these, 33 are African states.
The court, however, decided not to pursue the matter further for pragmatic reasons. It also reasoned that to refer South Africa to the United Nations Security Council for noncompliance “would not be an effective way to foster future cooperation”. In the event that Putin attended the upcoming Brics Summit and Ramaphosa’s government did not arrest him, it would mean that South Africa was flouting domestic legislation as well as its own constitution.
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