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THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL Court said today that it was “undeterred” after Russia put prosecutor Karim Khan on a wanted list over his issuance of an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin.
“The ICC finds these measures unacceptable. The court will remain undeterred in the conduct of its lawful mandate to ensure accountability for the gravest crimes,” the Hague-based tribunal said in a statement.
Khan, a UK citizen, issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children.
The war crimes court added that it was “aware and profoundly concerned about unwarranted and unjustified coercive measures… by the authorities of the Russian Federation”.
The ICC statement urged the court’s 123 member states to “enhance their efforts to protect the court, its officials and its personnel”.
Khan’s picture could be seen in the Russian interior ministry’s database on Friday. The notice described him as a man born on 30 March 1970, in Edinburgh, Scotland, but did not specify his offence.
Russia, which is not a member of the ICC, has previously said the warrant against Putin is “void”.
The court also issued an arrest warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s presidential commissioner for children’s rights, on similar charges.
In a separate statement, the legislative body representing the member nations said it was “deeply concerned” by the measures against Khan and the court’s judges.
The presidency of the ICC Assembly of the States Parties said it “regrets these acts of intimidation and unacceptable attempts to undermine the mandate of the International Criminal Court”.
In March, Russia’s Investigative Committee said Khan was being probed for the “criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent.”
Kyiv says more than 16,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia since the beginning of Moscow’s invasion in February 2022, with many allegedly placed in institutions and foster homes.
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A nightmare for the crew and their families.
Lets hope they can be found before tomorrow.
@NotMyIreland: All fingers crossed for them. It’s still possible that they’re on some ridge & can be reached in time.
are you telling me in this day and age that there’s no way of tracking or locating a bloody huge submarine???
@John Arsey: obviously that must be the case. It’s not large compared to the scale of the sea !
@John Arsey: the whole point of having a submarine is that they are as stealthy as possible
@Claudio Cavaliere: so there’s no protocol to deal with an Emergency on a submarine then?
@John Arsey: it’s a pretty massive sea
@John Arsey: Don’t forget MH370, we thought when that went missing we said the exact same thing.
Awful way to go
Modern submarines are extremely difficult to locate https://theconversation.com/submarines-are-designed-to-hide-so-what-happens-when-one-goes-missing-159634
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