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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to the foreign affairs and trade minister, Helen McEntee, urging her to use Ireland's presidency of the Council of the European Union to lead EU Member States in stepping up efforts to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC) from t

The United States must immediately withdraw sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) personnel, UN experts have said after new designations targeting the President of the Court and a staff member were issued on 18 August.

Karim Khan has been removed as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after member states voted to dismiss him over allegations of sexual misconduct, marking the first time the court's top prosecutor has been ousted in its 24-year history. The barrister, 56, has denied allegation

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has been suspended while an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct continues. The decision was taken by the bureau of the court’s Assembly of States Parties, which has referred the matter to the ICC’s 125

The International Criminal Court’s governing body is expected to meet today to consider the advice of a panel of judges who have challenged the findings of a sexual misconduct investigation into its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. A UN inquiry last year into allegations about Mr Khan’s beh

The International Bar Association (IBA) has condemned the imposition of sanctions by the US on two more International Criminal Court (ICC) judges. On 18 December, the US administration imposed sanctions on Judge Lordkipanidze and Judge Damdin for "having directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to inv

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to move away from Microsoft software in favour of an open-source alternative in response to sanctions imposed by the US government, according to reports. In May this year, it was reported that Microsoft disconnected the email account of the ICC's chief prose

A senior leader of a Sudanese militia has been convicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the early 2000s. The conviction of Janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is the first conviction in the situation in Darfur, Sudan, a

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has been charged with crimes against humanity by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over allegations that he authorised killings during his country’s violent war on drugs. A 15-page charge sheet dated 4 July was made public on Mond

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened war crimes proceedings against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony in its first-ever confirmation of charges hearing held without the accused present. The move represents a historic step for the court and a potential test case for future prosecutions of

Three leading Palestinian human rights groups have been sanctioned by the Trump administration for having engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) as it investigates Israeli war crimes. Al-Haq, which is based in the West Bank, has been targeted alongside the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for

The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on two judges and two deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, French judge Nicolas Guillou and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan, from Fiji, and Mame Mandiaye Niang, from Senegal, are the lat

Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has been ordered to recuse himself from the court’s investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela due to a conflict of interest arising from a family connection. The ICC’s appeals judges rule

The International Bar Association (IBA) has condemned new sanctions against International Criminal Court judges by the US as an attack against the global rule of law and the independence of judges. IBA president Jaime Carey said: "Since its founding in 1947, the IBA has endeavoured to protect and ad

The Irish government has reiterated its support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the "cornerstone of the international system of criminal justice" after Hungary announced its intention to withdraw. Viktor Orbán's government yesterday began the process of withdrawing from the Rome