🔹Bashar al-Assad (Syria): Arrest warrant issued by French court for complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes related to his role in the Ghouta chemical attacks. Currently fugitive.
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🔹 Vladimir Putin – Russia. An ICC arrest warrant was issued on March 17, 2023, for war crimes, specifically the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Currently fugitive.
🔹 Omar al-Bashir – Sudan. Also under ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Darfur. Currently fugitive.
🔹Laurent Gbagbo – Ivory Coast. Acquitted by the ICC in 2019 of all charges of crimes against humanity related to post-election violence in 2010–2011.
🔹Uhuru Kenyatta – Kenya: Charges withdrawn by the ICC in 2014 due to insufficient evidence. Charges were crimes against humanity related to the 2007–2008 post-election violence.
🔹Slobodan Milošević – Serbia and Yugoslavia. Died in 2006 before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) could reach a verdict on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
🔹Augusto Pinochet – Chile. Arrested in 1998 in the UK on torture charges but was released on medical grounds in 2000 without facing trial (Spain had requested his extradition). Died in 2006.
🔹Erich Honecker – East Germany. Put on trial in 1992 for ordering the killings of people attempting to flee East Germany. The trial was discontinued in 1993 due to his deteriorating health.
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🔹Laurent Gbagbo – Ivory Coast. Acquitted by the ICC in 2019 of all charges of crimes against humanity related to post-election violence in 2010–2011.