Today, 1st February 2019, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") decided unanimously that conditions are to be imposed on Mr Laurent Gbagbo and Mr Charles Blé Goudé upon their release to a State willing to accept them on its territory and willing and able to enforce the conditions set by the Appeals Chamber. These conditions are imposed to protect the integrity of the process. A written Judgment setting out these conditions will be made available later today.

Un député centrafricain, l'ex-chef de milice Alfred Yekatom, a été extradé aujoud'hui vers la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) de La Haye qui avait émis un mandat d'arrêt dont les motifs n'ont pas été précisés, a déclaré une source gouvernementale. "L'avion vient de quitter Bangui, il arrivera à La Haye vers 21H30" (20H30 GMT), a précisé cette source à l'AFP.

On 8 June 2018, after a 10-year odyssey of proceedings, hundreds of submissions (oral and written), roughly 48 months of trial, 77 witnesses, 733 admitted items of evidence, 1219 written trial decisions and orders, and at the expense of an incredible amount of human and financial resources, Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo was acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber of all charges (murder and rape as crimes against humanity, murder and rape as war crimes, and pillaging as a war crime) that he was unanimously convicted of by Trial Chamber III (Presiding Judge Sylvia Steiner, Judge Joyce Aluoch, and Judge Kuniko Ozaki).

On 25 January 2019, the President of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "the Court") Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji participated in a high-level event in commemoration of the Rome Statute's 20th anniversary held in Madrid, Spain. The event was presided by H.E. Josep Borrell, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain. ICC President Eboe-Osuji also met with the Spanish Minister of Justice H.E. Dolores Delgado García.

We invite you to read the reports made on the occasion of the Side Event of the 38th Session of the UN Human Rights Council organized by our member Dr. Daniel Mekonnen, last 25th of June in Geneva. Read more...

Would you choose to buy a product if you knew it has been produced by slaves? Probably not; but reality is, in many countries around the world slavery still does exist. It is known as “modern slavery” to differentiate it from the slave trading that took place in North America between the 15th and the 19th century, but it has no difference. People including women and children are still exploited and involved in the textile industry, in plantations, constructions sites, and in the mining industry. Potentially, any product we use could have been, at some point, in the hands of a slave. This has nothing to do with a sustainable economy, and to raise awareness about the issue of “modern slavery” today we speak with Elise Groulx.

Le  peuple congolais sera appelé aux urnes dans le cadre des élections présidentielles, législatives et provinciales. Je suis préoccupée par les tensions croissantes sur le territoire de la République Démocratique du Congo (« RDC ») et par le risque d'une escalade de la violence, qui pourrait déboucher sur la commission de crimes graves relevant de la compétence de la Cour pénale internationale (la « CPI » ou la « Cour »).

La RDC est un Etat partie à la CPI. Cette Cour a été créée pour poursuivre et juger les personnes accusées des crimes les plus graves qui touchent l'ensemble de la communauté internationale, à savoir le crime de génocide, les crimes contre l'humanité, les crimes de guerre et le crime d'agression.

"If States are permitted to take action against a Judge in violation of the applicable international legal framework, judicial independence—a cornerstone principle of the rule of law—and the integrity of our court as such are fundamentally at risk, as is the overall project of international criminal justice." - Judge Theodor Meron, MICT President

Kudos to Judge Theodor Meron for standing up for Judge Aydin Sefa Akay, and more importantly, for judicial independence. Let’s hope his admonitions do not amount to a lone cry in the wilderness of international justice.

The complaint is reaffirmed with an agile and rapid response from the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, which unfortunately are being committed every day in Venezuela. This will fulfill one of its purposes, that the authors of the most execrable crimes that constitute a threat to the peace, security and well-being of humanity, will not go unpunished.

Blas J. Imbroda, president of the International Criminal Bar, joined the initiative of the former Attorney General of Venezuela to get the Criminal Court of The Hague to judge the president and several Chavez soldiers for crimes against humanity. The jurist, who chairs one of the most important lawyers' organizations in the world, is an expert in Criminal Law and International Criminal Law and professor at the Universities of Melilla and Isabel I.