“The specter of a government pursuing investigations and prosecutions of the former regime while blatantly ignoring—or worse, covering up—its own crimes and misdeeds will very likely deepen mistrust across the…
Back in October International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda submitted a nine page missive to the pre-trial chamber seeking to establish a December 31, 2015 deadline for South Africa…
So. The book most often checked out of the United Nations members’ library is a tome on, as Vox put it, “how to be immune from war crimes prosecution.” Which…
A couple weeks back we asked whether it might be time for the U.S. to start worrying about the International Criminal Court — an institution that not only sees few if any real…
Lawfare Tyranny A few weeks back we noted Kenyan “human rights activist” Ken Wafula dramatically recanted his support of the International Criminal Court’s pursuit of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto after…
Lawfare Tyranny International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda was recently asked by Yahoo! News, “What is the biggest challenge [the Court faces] in 2016?” Her response is instructive: “There is…
Lawfare Tyranny A couple weeks ago we noted The Washington Times had launched its Ronald Reagan Thought Leadership Series at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California with an…
Lawfare Tyranny A scholar at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation who a few months back declared the International Criminal Court an “important institution” that should be given enough power to cause…
Lawfare Tyranny It had long been rumored that Namibian President Hage Geingob’s ultimately un-delivered speech to the African Union summit in South Africa last July included a stinging rebuke of…
What should an International Criminal Court member state do if it feels the Court is behaving in an unfair, politicized manner by, say, using recanted testimony in a continuation of an already bafflingly…
عليك أن تقدر وقاحة محام في لاهاي يتصرف بجبن مطلق في مطالبه بعدم الكشف عن هويته حتى وهو يدعي سلطة غير محدودة لمنظمته. هنا، نقلًا عن The Quint، نجد ترس…
The ICC runs into the world’s largest powder house waving a torch. That is how Lawfare Tyranny described the International Criminal Court’s ill-advised and completely unwarranted entree into the most complex, thorniest…
Lawfare Tyranny You have to appreciate the chutzpah of a Hague lawyer acting an utter coward in his demands for anonymity even as he claims essentially unlimited power for his…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The Russian state-funded media outlet Russia Today is hyping a recent interview in which journalist Neil Clark insists arresting former British Prime Minster Tony Blair on…
في افتتاحيته القوية بواشنطن تايمز في نهاية هذا الأسبوع أعرب رئيس السودان الجنوبي، سلفاكير ميارديت، عن الابتهاج بتحقيق الاستقلال قبل خمس سنوات، والنضال من أجل بناء حكومة مُمثِّلة ومجتمع مدني…