ICC prosecutor Karim Khan issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on March 17 after accusing him of committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Russia responded by saying that it does not recognize the jurisdiction of that judicial body and months later, with a similar sentence against the British prosecutor
The Russian Ministry of the Interior issued this Friday, May 19, a search and arrest warrant against the General Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan; in retaliation for what the British did in recent days of issuing an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the alleged commission of crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
the russian portal midfielder noted that three days after Khan issued an order to arrest Putin and Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, a criminal investigation was opened against the ICC prosecutor; together with the judges Tomoko Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez.
In addition, an image corresponding to the arrest warrant against the ICC prosecutor issued by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was published.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday March 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine, specifically the removal and deportation of children.
Through a statement, the Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, commissioner for the rights of the child in Russia, by virtue of the requests presented by the Prosecutor’s Office last February 22. The magistrates have decided to make the orders public to prevent future crimes from being committed.
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The Kremlin assured that Russia does not recognize the jurisdiction of that court, so its decisions have “zero legal value”, while the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, warned that Putin’s arrest would be comparable to a “declaration of war” and threatened to bombard the court’s headquarters in The Hague with missiles.
Then the Russian Duma approved the April 18th a law that allows prison sentences of up to five years to be established for those who collaborate with the ICC.
This new article allows the Russian authorities to take legal action against those who help international organizations and foreign organizations in actions that are detrimental to Russian laws; after it was decided in 2020 that the legislation of the Eurasian nation was above international standards.
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