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The Democratic Republic of the #Congo has instituted proceedings against #Rwanda at the #ICJ: for "abuses attributable to Rwanda over a period extending from 1996 to the present day" The application cites the #genocide convention, amongst other instruments. www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

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The Democratic Republic of the #Congo has instituted proceedings against #Rwanda at the #ICJ: for "abuses attributable to Rwanda over a period extending from 1996 to the present day" The application cites the #genocide convention, amongst other instruments. www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

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The #ICC’s oversight body says that Chief Prosecutor Karim #Khan should be fired for an inappropriate sexual relationship www.reuters.com/world/icc-bu...

EXCLUSIVE: ICC bureau says Khan should be fired for inappropriate sexual relationship

Diplomats running the International Criminal Court's oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, tw...

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Lucy Gaynor@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · last mo.

Yesterday, the Dutch Prosecution service requested a life sentence for Eugène N. They highlighted his role as a "local leader" of the genocide, and that an "exceptional case" like this one should be used as "warning" to "all genocidaires" that they cannot escape justice. www.om.nl/actueel/nieu...

OM eist levenslang tegen verdachte uit Ede wegens genocide Rwanda | Openbaar Ministerie

Vanwege de uitzonderlijke verdenking van genocide eist het OM dat een man uit Rwanda levenslang de cel in gaat. De 66-jarige verdachte werd in februari 2024 aangehouden in Ede. Op de vijfde dag van zi...

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Today, the Dutch Prosecution service will deliver its closing arguments, and sentence request.

Astrid Reisinger Coracini@astridcoracini.bsky.social · last mo.

In September 2025, #Niger, #Mali, and #BurkinaFaso announced their withdrawal from the #ICC, which they called "a tool of neocolonial oppression". After hearing nothing more on it since, last week Niger formally withdrew from the #RomeStatute: a withdrawal which will go into effect on 18 June 2027.

#Niger withdraws from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (#ICC). Unless revoked, the #withdrawal will take effect in 1 year. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

Lucy Gaynor@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today, the Dutch Prosecution service will deliver its closing arguments, and sentence request.

This week (and next), a 64 year old man is being tried in #Dutch courts - under #UniversalJurisdiction - for his alleged role in the Rwandan #genocide as it unfolded in Mbazi - where he was a 'responsable'. Reflecting on courts, agency, time, and memory. open.substack.com/pub/lucygayn...

The #ICTR 's Residual Mechanism announced that, last week, André Ntagerura died in hospital in #Niger. Ntagerura was acquitted in 2004, but remained - essentially - in #UN custody until his death on 18 June 2026. He had been in hospital since 2024. ucr.irmct.org/Search/Previ...

Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This week (and next), a 64 year old man is being tried in #Dutch courts - under #UniversalJurisdiction - for his alleged role in the Rwandan #genocide as it unfolded in Mbazi - where he was a 'responsable'. Reflecting on courts, agency, time, and memory. open.substack.com/pub/lucygayn...

Thanks to @janethanderson.bsky.social, @svdberg.bsky.social & John Bosco Siboyintore for the opportunity to talk about all things relating to #Rwanda, border control & universal jurisdiction. @uctlaw.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social @benjaminthorne.bsky.social

Episode 160 – Universal Jurisdiction and Rwanda with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer

As universal jurisdiction gains momentum worldwide, we spoke with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer about its potential to close the accountability gap left by the 1994 Genocide Against the …

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This week (and next), a 64 year old man is being tried in #Dutch courts - under #UniversalJurisdiction - for his alleged role in the Rwandan #genocide as it unfolded in Mbazi - where he was a 'responsable'. Reflecting on courts, agency, time, and memory. open.substack.com/pub/lucygayn...

“we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive sense that an assault could occur at any moment.” Luqman Saeed, lecturer in economics at Ulster University, on the racist violence ‘In #Belfast’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Luqman Saeed | In Belfast

It isn’t an exaggeration to say that we are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive...

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Lucy Gaynor@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ICC Presidency's statement about the ASP decision to suspend Khan. It says not much of anything, except: "The Presidency recalls that the International Criminal Court is one of the most significant achievements of human civilisation." Quite a 'recollection'. www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

Statement by the Presidency on the decision of the ASP Bureau in the disciplinary proceedings against the ICC Prosecutor

The Presidency of the International Criminal Court takes note of the decision taken by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute last night to refer the disciplinary proceedings...

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#ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan - who has been on leave since May of last year following allegations of sexual misconduct - has been suspended by the bureau of the 'Assembly of States Parties' pending a decision by the full Assembly. www.icc-cpi.int/news/decisio...

Lucy Gaynor@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ICC Presidency's statement about the ASP decision to suspend Khan. It says not much of anything, except: "The Presidency recalls that the International Criminal Court is one of the most significant achievements of human civilisation." Quite a 'recollection'. www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

Statement by the Presidency on the decision of the ASP Bureau in the disciplinary proceedings against the ICC Prosecutor

The Presidency of the International Criminal Court takes note of the decision taken by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute last night to refer the disciplinary proceedings...

icc-cpi.int

#ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan - who has been on leave since May of last year following allegations of sexual misconduct - has been suspended by the bureau of the 'Assembly of States Parties' pending a decision by the full Assembly. www.icc-cpi.int/news/decisio...

#ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan - who has been on leave since May of last year following allegations of sexual misconduct - has been suspended by the bureau of the 'Assembly of States Parties' pending a decision by the full Assembly. www.icc-cpi.int/news/decisio...

Decision of the Bureau concerning the outcome of disciplinary proceedings involving the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

At its meeting on 8 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, by qualified majority: made a decision on the disciplinary proceedi...

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Asymmetrical Haircuts @asymmetricalh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough? If they knew that it would be hard to prove? It’s hard to consider that and not despair." Academic despair in the 'Age of #AI', from Jay Caspian Kang in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”

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TB🔙 Félicien Kabuga, described by many as the ‘mastermind’ behind the Rwandan Genocide has recently died at the age of 93. To learn more about Kabuga’s life, listen to our throwback episode this week.👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 79 – Kabuga’s Alternative Procedure with Lucy Gaynor

What next for Felicien Kabuga, unfit to stand trial for the Rwandan genocide, but possibly facing an alternative procedure never before heard of in international criminal tribunals.

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International Criminal Law Review @intlcrimlawreview.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New #Article, now online: ‘Head of State Immunity and the International Criminal Court: Re-Reading the Immunity Debate Through Wight’s Three Traditions’ by Aldo Zammit Borda. doi.org/10.1163/1571...

Head of State Immunity and the International Criminal Court: Re-Reading the Immunity Debate Through Wight’s Three Traditions

Abstract The enforcement of international criminal law depends on state cooperation, yet persistent disagreements over whether sitting Heads of State from non-parties to the International Criminal Court enjoy immunity from arrest suggest a challenge that doctrinal analysis alone cannot resolve. This article undertakes an interdisciplinary, meta-doctrinal analysis, drawing on Martin Wight’s three traditions of international theory (Realism, Revolutionism and Rationalism) to argue that divergent interpretations of Articles 27 and 98 of the Rome Statute are driven by fundamentally different philosophical ideas about the nature of international society. Applying this framework to state responses to arrest warrants against Al-Bashir, Putin and Netanyahu, the analysis shows how each tradition influences the assumptions on which doctrinal reasoning about the applicable law proceeds, yielding divergent, and mutually exclusive, interpretations. The immunity debate thus emerges as a permanent site of contestation, shaped by competing visions of international order embedded within the Rome Statute itself.

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The final #ICTR hearings ever took place last week, after #Kabuga 's death on 16 May. Judge Bonomy described it as "a truly historic milestone": the catchphrase for both the expectations & failures of the entire saga, since his arrest in 2020. From @mollyquell.bsky.social apnews.com/article/un-t...

Final case at UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda atrocities comes to an end

The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide have held their final session.

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Ronald dela Rosa - a Senator in the #Philippines and former police chief under #Duterte - has failed in his attempt to have his #ICC arrest warrant blocked by the country’s Supreme Court www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Philippines top court rejects bid to block arrest of senator wanted by ICC

Senator dela Rosa, whose whereabouts are ⁠unknown, is wanted by the ICC for his role in Duterte's bloody 'war on drugs'.

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16.05.2026 Still in #NL, c.3 years after his trial ended - without a verdict - due to his health, Félicien #Kabuga has died in hospital. The President of the #ICTR’s successor mechanism ( #IRMCT ) has ordered an inquiry into the death of the Rwandan genocide’s most high profile ex-fugitive.

Lucy Gaynor@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And here, the statement from the #IRMCT www.irmct.org/en/news/stat...

Statement on the passing of Félicien Kabuga

Mr. Félicien Kabuga passed away today while hospitalized in The Hague, The Netherlands. The Medical Officer of the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) was immediately notified, and the Dutch authorit...

irmct.org

16.05.2026 Still in #NL, c.3 years after his trial ended - without a verdict - due to his health, Félicien #Kabuga has died in hospital. The President of the #ICTR’s successor mechanism ( #IRMCT ) has ordered an inquiry into the death of the Rwandan genocide’s most high profile ex-fugitive.

16.05.2026 Still in #NL, c.3 years after his trial ended - without a verdict - due to his health, Félicien #Kabuga has died in hospital. The President of the #ICTR’s successor mechanism ( #IRMCT ) has ordered an inquiry into the death of the Rwandan genocide’s most high profile ex-fugitive.