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Sudanese Science and Technology Minister Ibrahim Ahmad Omar has said that Sudan is convinced that Luis Moreno Ocampo, International Criminal Court prosecutor for the trial of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, is using legal guise for political ... October 10, 2008, 5:01 pm
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was drafted and adopted in Rome, Italy, on July 17, 1998. It entered into force on July 1, 2002 after having been ratified by sixty countries.
News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Arab justice ministers plan to meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the pending indictment against Sudanese President 'Umar Al-Bashir. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked for an arrest warrant to be issued against Al-Bashir in July for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The request requires the approval of ICC judges who are reviewing the case....
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Court Tuesday called for new efforts to arrest Ugandan rebel group leaders after attacks on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he has information indicating that the rebel Lord's Resistance Army's attack on DR Congo in which dozens of civilians have been killed, schoolchildren abducted and...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Sudanese oppositionist intellectual Hassan Al-Turabi has accused the Arabs of ignoring the Darfur issue until the International Criminal Court indictment of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. He said that President Bashir, who knew about the ... October 7, 2008, 12:40 pm
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Kevin Jon Heller (University of Auckland - Faculty of Law) has posted Situational Gravity Under the Rome Statute on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The ICC is often derided as the "African Criminal Court." That criticism cannot easily be dismissed: all...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
THE Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has renewed calls for the arrest of LRA leader Joseph Kony.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday renewed his call for the arrest of Ugandan rebel leader and war crimes suspect Joseph Kony after new attacks attributed to the rebels. Moreno-Ocampo said Kony's group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), was responsible for attacks on Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) civilians earlier this month. Moreno-Ocampo...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Arab justice ministers will meet in Cairo next week to discuss means of defusing the recent crisis between Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Egyptian MENA news agency reported Sunday. At a joint press conference with visiting Sudanese Justice Minister Abdel Basit Saleh Sabdarat, Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa said the ministerial meeting on Oct. 12 will focus on the...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Mr. Luis Moreno Ocampo and two Darfurians at the meeting in New York.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Mediocre. That about sums up Canada's address to the United Nations General Assembly this week. For a nation that helped invent UN peacekeeping, championed the International Criminal Court, fought South African apartheid and lobbied for a worldwide ban on land mines, it was a discouraging performance.
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said ongoing indictment efforts against him could threaten peace in Darfur. The Sudanese leader said if International Criminal Court prosecutors go through with their indictment of al-Bashir on war crime charges, their efforts would only serve to derail current peace efforts in the Sudanese region, the BBC said Friday. ICC prosecutors...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
International Criminal Court judges met yesterday with prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to discuss his request to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. The discussion was behind closed doors. It was reported that the judges ... October 2, 2008, 3:07 pm
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
MANILA, Oct. 4 (PNA) — The Delegation of the European Commission (EC) in Manila has assured that Philippine ratification of the Rome Statute for an international criminal court would help in “bringing to justice perpetrators of serious international crimes.”
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
MANILA, Oct. 3 (PNA Features) -- (Editor’s Note: The following speech of Ambassador Alistair MacDonald of the European Commission in Manila, on the tie-up between the EU and the ICC, was delivered at the recent conference on the International Criminal Court (ICC) organized by the Supreme Court. It will be noted that the Philippines signed the so-called Rome Statute in December 2000, but has not ratified...
