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Senior Counsel on international justice at Human Rights Watch

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    22 hours ago

    : Amnesty worker in interrogated and ill-treated by security forces. Hamas forces’ violent crackdown against peaceful protesters, activists, human rights workers and journalists must be immediately halted and investigated, said Amnesty.

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  2. 22 hours ago

    ICC prosecutor issues statement noting her office still has a mandate over crimes committed while the Philippines was a member of the court.

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  3. 23 hours ago

    war crimes investigators confirm they are sharing a confidential list of suspected perpetrators with the UN human rights chief for forwarding to the ICC.

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  4. 24 hours ago

    Today called on the UN rights chief to give the ICC prosecutor access to information about alleged perpetrators of crimes in so they can face possible prosecution.

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  5. Mar 18

    Position paper by asserts that Israel’s promise to “investigate” incidents in which protesters were killed in is mere propaganda.

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  6. Mar 18

    Duterte has claimed that the Philippine justice system can deliver justice, but the conviction of three police in a single case to date, against a backdrop of up to 27,000 dead, according to a recent UN estimate, tells a very different story.

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  7. Mar 17

    Turkey said last week that Interpol has issued red notices for the arrest of 20 suspects believed to be involved in the killing.

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  8. Mar 17

    Saudi crown prince authorized secret campaign to silence dissenters more than a year before the killing, according to American officials who have read classified intelligence:

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  9. Mar 17

    When the ICC was notified about the Philippine's move to withdraw from the court, it issued a statement clarifying the impact of Manila's decision:

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    Mar 16

    Pay attention to Algeria. The protests that are happening there are remarkable, and few Western reporters can get in. But Adam Nossiter did.

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  11. Mar 17

    Philippine President Duterte last year threatened to arrest the ICC prosecutor: "I will bar you, not because I am afraid of you, I said. But because you will never have jurisdiction over my person. Not in a million years."

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  12. Mar 17

    The Philippines officially leaves the International Criminal Court.

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  13. Mar 15

    Trump administration threats against the ICC mask the real problem: the failure of US authorities to address past torture and other abuses by the CIA and US armed forces.

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  14. Mar 15

    President of ICC's assembly of member countries responds to the US administration's attack on the court:

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  15. Mar 15

    The Trump administration is trying an end run around accountability.

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  16. Mar 15

    More about the ICC prosecutor's examination of crimes in can be found here:

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    Mar 15

    I know it dates me, but feeling some nostalgia for the days when the US used visa sanctions to go after war criminals rather than their prosecutors.

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  18. Mar 15

    Trump administration also sets its sights on potential ICC investigation: “These visa restrictions may also be used to deter ICC efforts to pursue allied personnel, including Israelis, without allied consent.”

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  19. Mar 15

    Naked attempt to impede justice: "I am announcing a policy of US visa restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for any ICC investigation of US personnel. This includes persons who take or who have taken action to request or further such an investigation."

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  20. Mar 15

    Video of Pompeo's remarks on the ICC can be found here starting at minute 3:28:

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