The Kremlin accuses the International Court of Justice of “incriminating an innocent person” days after the arrest warrant against Putin
This was reported by Russia’s investigative committee on Monday (March 20). Vladimir Putin on Friday (March 17). The information comes from the Russian news agency Tass.
According to the committee, prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan and judges Tomoko Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez are accused of judicially charging an innocent person with “committing a serious or particularly serious crime” and assaulting one Employees planned to have a foreign state with international protection in order to “tighten international relations”.
The Kremlin stated that the case opened by the Hague court was not based on legal action. The Russian government also invokes the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Persons Beneficiaries of International Protection, including Diplomats. Promulgated in 1973, the document stipulates that heads of state have the prerogative of absolute immunity from the jurisdiction of other countries.
“The prosecution is notoriously illegal as there is no basis for holding them criminally responsible,” Russia’s investigative committee said.
The decision comes in response to the fact that the International Court of Justice issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Alekseyevna LvovaBelova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights at the Russian Presidential Office, on alleged war crimes in which they would have illegally transferred children from Ukraine to Russia.
According to the organization, the crimes had been committed since the beginning of the conflict, on February 24, 2022. “There are reasonable reasons to assume that [Putin e LvovaBelova] committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or through others,” the court said.
The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 under the Rome Statute to try “international war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity”, the latter has been in force since 1998.
The competent body is based in The Hague, the Netherlands. The ICC consists of 4 bodies. These are the Presidency, the judicial sections dealing with appeals, trials of first instance and instruction, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Secretariat.
The Tribunal’s Court exercises jurisdiction over 123 countries, including Brazil. Both Russia and Ukraine are not parties to the Rome Statute.
The probability of a trial against Russia is low for experts in this field, since the court is prohibited from hearing cases in absentia in which the accused remains silent after the subpoena, does not defend the plaintiff’s allegations and does not appear at the sessions of the trial , and it is unlikely that the Russian government would charge its own employees. Furthermore, the Kremlin is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, which means that the mandate has no legal force in Russia.