Fatou Bensouda met with authorities and representatives of communities affected by the genocide. The Gambian jurist is nearing the end of her term, but she continues to call on the transitional government to hand over suspects charged by the ICC with crimes committed in Darfur. It was an unprecedented visit, but above all a symbolic […]
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ICC prosecutor seeks war crimes charges against Malian jihadi
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday asked judges to approve war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against a Malian jihadi suspected of committing atrocities in the west African nation. The International Criminal Court has detained Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz on charges of sex slavery and destruction of Timbuktu’s UNESCO […]
Libya: Haftar’s Military Commander under International Arrest Warrant
The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an international arrest warrant for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Warfalli, accused of war crimes for the execution of terrorist suspects in Benghazi, when the city was re-conquered by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces. ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I indicted the Field Commander of the Special Forces Brigade (Al-Saiqa) for […]
Libya: Arrest and surrender Saif al-Islam immediately, ICC Prosecutor
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda has reacted to the release of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Libya by stressing that the arrest warrant issued in 2011 by the ICC “remains valid and Libya is obliged to immediately arrest and surrender” him “regardless of any purported amnesty law in Libya.” Saif has […]
ICC to investigate human trafficking in Libya
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday told the UN Security Council that her office was collecting evidence of crimes allegedly committed by human traffickers against migrants in Libya. According to the UN, so far this year nearly 33,000 people have arrived in Europe, the majority from Libya while almost 850 are feared […]
Libya, “a priority situation” for the ICC in 2017, Bensouda
Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), said in a briefing before the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Libya is high on her Office’s agenda. “My commitment to make Libya a priority situation in 2017 is compelled by a number of factors” such as widespread violence, lawlessness and impunity in the country, a […]





