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Situation in #Palestine: The #ICC prosecutor considers he has "sufficient and reliable" confirmation of death to withdraw the warrant for Mohammed Al-Masri ('Deif'). Al-Masri was wanted for crimes related to the October 7 #Hamas attack, but suspected dead in an Israeli airstrike since July 2024.

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The #ICTR's residual mechanism has issued an "order" against defence lawyer Peter Robinson (who defended Radovan Karadžić at the #ICTY), for Contempt. Robinson is charged with repeatedly contacting protected #witnesses in the case of Augustin #Ngirabatware, in violation of protective measures.

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"I have love for my father, & I would have liked to have stayed with him" - Joseph #Kony's son Ali: from atop #LRA to limbo in 🇺🇬 His story interweaves with his dad, LRA, & broader patterns of militia/state violence Superb, from @kristoftiteca.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

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And, after the “Royal Museum of the Belgian #Congo”, looking at alternative narrations of colonial #Brussels, in Matonge Freddy Tsimba’s sculpture of a mother and child, “Beyond Hope”, made from spent bullet casings, made a particular impression on our students.

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Spent the morning with students, visiting ‘ #Africa Museum’ (formerly “Royal Museum of the Belgian #Congo”) - talking colonialism, violence, and the complicity and responsibility of #museums, historically and today.

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#ICC’s OTP makes strongly worded legal arguments: even if the issues that #Italy blamed for its failure were a factor, it had an obligation to consult the court. The timeline of events, however, is #REDACTED

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#ICC prosecutor asks for the court to make a finding of “non-compliance” regarding Italy’s arrest and release of #Libya’s Almasri Njeem “Italy’s noncompliance was particularly grave”, and should be referred to the #UN Security Council, or Assembly of States Parties.

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The Central African Republic has informed the #ICC about domestic proceedings v. Edmond #Beina, insisting that the Special Criminal Court (CPS) is "able and willing" to try him. Beina is 1 of 6 men before the 🇨🇫 CPS accused of Crimes Against Humanity & #WarCrimes committed in btw Feb & March 2014

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For #victims "the start of judicial proceedings marks an important opportunity to voice their sufferings & victimisation" 3460 victims from #Ongwen will also participate #Kony - is the 'in absentia' CoC a better expressive opportunity than the Ongwen trial? www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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Unsurprisingly, both the OTP and #Victims' reps oppose the defence appeal against #Kony's Confirmation of Charges hearing in absentia. For victims (who have been waiting 2 decades), "the start of judicial proceedings marks an important opportunity to voice their sufferings and victimisation".

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The #UN's Human Rights Office has accused M23 of "summary executions" of military-uniformed & armed children in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of #Congo The UN has accused both the Congolese army, and militias in the region, of recruiting child soldiers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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A film of a film tells the story of the production of one of the most well-known atrocity documentaries ever made: Lanzmann’s 9.5 hour “Shoah”. “the most important thing for Lanzmann, for me, is the possibility of getting to the truth, no matter what the methods” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

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The #ICC "invites" #Italy to explain itself re: the arrest & subsequent release without charge of Osama Elmasry ('Almasri Njeem') last month. Njeem is wanted on suspicion of crimes against humanity & war crimes, committed in a prison in Tripoli, #Libya, from 2015. www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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#Art break in London, brought to you by the National Portrait Gallery. A group of women attending a #Herero funeral in #Nambia, captured by Anoush Abrar

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“Go back to normal activities” #M23 calls for normality in captured #Goma, a city where, for many years, ‘normality’ has been shaped by violence, displacement, & threat in the surrounding area. c.400,000 people fled into Goma in 2025 alone to escape the fighting. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/w...

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A Court in #Stockholm has convicted a 52-year old woman of #genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, for her role in the keeping of #Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, #Syria, in 2015 www.domstol.se/stockholms-t...

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#ICC judges reject a request that prosecutor Khan be forced to recuse himself from Situation in #Venezuela Applicants (the Arcadia foundation) "lack standing", and a recusal request is more appropriately discussed after an arrest warrant or summons has been issued. www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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#ICC judges reject a request that prosecutor Khan be forced to recuse himself from Situation in #Venezuela Applicants (the Arcadia foundation) "lack standing", and a recusal request is more appropriately discussed after an arrest warrant or summons has been issued. www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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How are [ #ICC] Judges meant to decide whether an in absentia proceeding should be held against... #Kony, but not... #Putin or... #Netanyahu? Appeal against CoC hearings in absentia accuses the OTP, in an age of "unexecuted arrest warrants", of holding "mini-trials" www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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How are [ #ICC] Judges meant to decide whether an in absentia proceeding should be held against... #Kony, but not... #Putin or... #Netanyahu? Appeal against CoC hearings in absentia accuses the OTP, in an age of "unexecuted arrest warrants", of holding "mini-trials" www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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#Mozambique protests are part of “a wave of anti-government protests sweeping a region where youthful populations are no longer swayed by liberation-era parties.” A tide-change in #Africa for parties like Frelimo, who oversaw independence from #Portgual www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Nigeria, France, UK… Just some of the governments who have rushed to announce their continued support of the #ICC in the wake of #Trump’s threatened (& now implemented) #sanctions: a retaliation for #Israel warrants www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...

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"National emergency" against the #ICC "threat" #Trump's sanctions have arrived, for whom "have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for" the ICC. What next for 🇺🇸-based #Tech & Humanitarian organisations? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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"National emergency" against the #ICC "threat" #Trump's sanctions have arrived, for whom "have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for" the ICC. What next for 🇺🇸-based #Tech & Humanitarian organisations? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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"you and I were caught up in a storm that overtook both of us" Maher Mezahi ( @africasacountry.bsky.social ) on #Algeria-#France relations, the rifts of #colonial violence, silences that drive them further apart, & the mismatched narrations of a shared #history africasacountry.com/2025/02/alge...

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"We tried to be constructive, tried to support the rules-based order, but #Mauritius has been completely unreasonable & now it will never be returned." British Members of Parliament, incl. inside #Labour, voice opposition to the deal to cede the #Chagos islands. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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"a disservice to #history & #justice" In Koko, #Nigeria, a small #museum remembers an oft-forgotten 1894 #British invasion. Compared to the Museum of West African #Art in #Benin it is underfunded & under-preserved. What challenges are there for #restitution? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The #ICC has put out a call & a link for the submission of #evidence regarding the situation in the #Congo “thousands of persons have been wounded & hundreds killed in and around #Goma, including #civilians #peacekeepers” due to clashes between #DRC forces and #M23 www.icc-cpi.int/drc/call-for...

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The #ICC has put out a call & a link for the submission of #evidence regarding the situation in the #Congo “thousands of persons have been wounded & hundreds killed in and around #Goma, including #civilians #peacekeepers” due to clashes between #DRC forces and #M23 www.icc-cpi.int/drc/call-for...

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The International Commission for #Syria has released a staggering report - “Web of Agony”: Arbitrary Detention, #Torture, and Ill-Treatment by former ( #Assad) Government forces The documented crimes created “an unremitting cycle of violence amid rampant impunity“ www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Today the #ICC disagreed Mokom's treatment amounted to "detention" "The option to leave the hotel & [REDACTED] – undesirable as it may have been for Mr Mokom – was always available" ('undesirable' [REDACTED] here may be the life sentence w/ hard labour Mokom would have faced returning to #CAR?)

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Today the #ICC disagreed Mokom's treatment amounted to "detention" "The option to leave the hotel & [REDACTED] – undesirable as it may have been for Mr Mokom – was always available" ('undesirable' [REDACTED] here may be the life sentence w/ hard labour Mokom would have faced returning to #CAR?)

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In April 2024, Mokom's defence team described his treatment by the #ICC as "a grave and manifest miscarriage of justice". "Today, he is an asylum seeker, with no legal status, no means of sustaining himself, and no realistic prospect of returning to the position he was in before his arrest"

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🚨 #ICC Judges rejected #Mokom's request for compensation 🚨 Mokom requested c.€4,000,000 in compensation after the case against him was dropped before going to trial. He spent almost 2 months almost in house arrest, in a hotel in the #Hague, as the Court scrambled to find somewhere for him to go.

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#ICC declares the Katanga #reparations proceedings concluded, over a decade after his conviction. March 2014: Katanga was convicted of #warcrimes/ crime against humanity for a 2003 attack on Bogoro, #DRC. The trust fund for #victims issued its final report in Dec: www.legal-tools.org/doc/kge1dgox/

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"the outcome of these proceedings is likely to shape the work of the Court for the next decade" 🚨Judges allow #Kony defence to appeal PTC decision to hold CoC proceedings in absentia🚨 With #ICC under pressure & facing severe lack of co-operation, this appeal could quite literally define its future

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The warrant for #Kony was issued in 2005. These 2025 absent-hearings were argued for, in part, due to his long flight from justice. But the #ICC faces, now, a glut of potentially unfulfillable warrants: from #Russia & #Israel to #Afghanistan An Appeal Chamber decision could cast a long shadow.

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"the outcome of these proceedings is likely to shape the work of the Court for the next decade" 🚨Judges allow #Kony defence to appeal PTC decision to hold CoC proceedings in absentia🚨 With #ICC under pressure & facing severe lack of co-operation, this appeal could quite literally define its future

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Dear ICC, Can we please drop the advocacy that ICL can and should facilitate truth telling, and instead focus on trying to get the basics right and try to do the basics well.

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#Khan tells the #UN security council he wants more warrants re: crimes in #Darfur, #Sudan The #ICC trial of Ali Kushayb "means an awful lot" but "cannot be viewed as a final step" References "accountability" and "truth telling" in #Nuremberg: "It is time to fulfil that promise of never again".

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The International Commission for #Syria has released a staggering report - “Web of Agony”: Arbitrary Detention, #Torture, and Ill-Treatment by former ( #Assad) Government forces The documented crimes created “an unremitting cycle of violence amid rampant impunity“ www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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“ #Sanctions will see the #US engaging in the same kind of obstruction carried out by the Russian Federation in retaliation for the court’s arrest warrant against Russian President #Putin” #ICC Coalition (@ngos4justice.bsky.social) statement on 🇺🇸 sanctions: coalitionfortheicc.org/oppose-sanct...

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Jos Leijdekkers - wanted by #Dutch authorities to serve a 24 year sentence, served in absentia on drug smuggling, armed robbery, and murder charges - is allegedly living in #SierraLeone, and said to be married to the daughter of President Julius Maada Bio. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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An excellent point 👇🏻 from @benjaminthorne.bsky.social - consequences of a #Trump cabinet’s opposition to the #ICC could have implications far beyond economic #sanctions of its staff.

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After all the tech billionaires at #Trump’s inauguration, this detail is particularly telling: One source said “evidence was being backed up due to fears U.S. #tech giant Microsoft would have to stop working with the court.” #ICC prepares for possible US sanctions www.reuters.com/world/intern...

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Authorities in #Syria make multiple arrests after 35 revenge killings in #Homs over the weekend. Local armed groups “carried out reprisals & settled old scores…taking advantage of the state of chaos, the proliferations of arms & their ties to the new authorities” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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