2015年4月8日 · The atrocities allegedly committed by ISIS undoubtedly constitute serious crimes of concern to the international community and threaten the peace, security and well-being of the region, and the world. They also occur in the context of other crimes allegedly committed by other warring factions in Syria and Iraq.

2015年6月11日 · More recently, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has added its voice, recommending that the ICC investigate and prosecute ISIS members in Iraq and Syria. ISIS is precisely the type of terrorist organization that proponents of international criminal justice had in mind when the ICC became a functioning entity in 2002.

2019年3月23日 · Twenty years ago, a treaty established the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a mandate to end impunity for perpetrators of war crimes and prevent such atrocities. However, the reality is that the ICC has been largely ineffective in achieving these aims, because of deep flaws in its structure.

2022年9月4日 · In early July 2022, the U.S. military killed the top Syrian leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a drone strike in northwestern Syria. While the U.S. has continued to destroy ISIS militarily, many international observers have called for the prosecution of certain ISIS leaders befo

2015年4月8日 · There have been an increasing number of calls for ISIS leaders to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court at the Hague. Today, the ICC’s prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, addressed the...

International criminal law has a name for what Islamic State has done to these women: gender-based persecution. This crime, which appears in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has only been charged once, and unsuccessfully, in the …

2016年3月29日 · In 2014, the Islamic State (also called ISIS) swept into northern Iraq. Fearing extermination, members of the Yezidi sect fled to their ancestral fastness on Mount Sinjar. There, on the slopes of the mountain, they huddled above the killing plains, in a place of refuge.

2015年4月10日 · Earlier this week, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda issued a “clarification” regarding communications received by her office with respect to atrocities allegedly committed by ISIS. The statement was unprecedented because, to the best of my knowledge, never before has the Prosecutor issued a formal public statement regarding a decision not to ...

2018年3月30日 · When going through this analysis and considering the factors set out by the Pre-Trial Chamber in the case of “Situation in the Republic of Kenya,” there is absolutely no doubt that the ICC can, and should, prosecute members of ISIS for crimes against humanity.

Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS can be referred to the International Criminal Court, the ICC. ISIS is a terrorist-labelled group that has through their own propaganda avenues defined their mission to declare a “caliphate” and for all Muslims to plead allegiance. Muslims and Non-Muslims are being killed, mostly in Syria and Iraq.