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The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an order last week asking authorities in Saudi Arabia to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir while he is on pilgrimage in Mecca currently....

More than 30 human rights and civil society organizations on Tuesday called for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . Tuesday was the fifth anniversary of his indictment on five...

Fred Nkusi, Independent Institute of Lay Adventists of Kigali

On Friday, Amnesty International (AI) called upon members of the UN to demand Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir turn himself in to the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

Of the 139 states that signed the Rome Statute, 32 have not yet ratified the treaty. According to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties , a state that has signed but not ratified a treaty is obliged to...

Articles 5 through 20 of the Rome Statute govern the jurisdiction of the ICC. There are four major factors to consider when assessing the court's jurisdiction. First, the specific crime committed has to fit the definition of one of the...

Judge Sang Hyun Song , the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , on Tuesday urged the international community to commit to bringing perpetrators of war crimes and genocide to justice. Song's statement marked...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday urged Nigerian authorities to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide ...

Richard Dicker & Elizabeth Evenson, Human Rights Watch

The World Bank announced Friday that former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will audit an investigation conducted by the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh (ACC) into whether...