Sergey Vasiliev
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International courts, accountability, transitional justice; 🚮 fascist dictatorships I profess international law | Open University TG по-русски 🐘
Why is this significant? The judges pointed out in a footnote that the prosecution may inform them that no further investigatory or prosecutorial activities are anticipated in a situation. The new Regulation 66 ter authorizes the PTC to order the closure of a situation record.
⚡️In July, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II directed the prosecution to split the investigation into the Taliban's gender-based crimes in Afghanistan since August 2021, from the prior broader investigation covering the crimes allegedly committed by the Afghan NSF, US military & CIA, Taliban,
Why is this significant? The judges pointed out in a footnote that the prosecution may inform them that no further investigatory or prosecutorial activities are anticipated in the original Afghanistan situation. The new Regulation 66ter authorizes the PTC to close the situation record.
⚡️In July, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II directed the prosecution to split the investigation into the Taliban's gender-based crimes in Afghanistan since August 2021, from the prior investigation implicating Afghan NSF, US military & CIA, Taliban, and ISIS-K. www.middleeasteye.ne...
"He's not trying to defend me. He is trying to defend Bibi and various other people." Trump interrupts Rubio as he brags about his campaign against the International Criminal Court, and says what it's really about: protecting Netanyahu from the ICC arrest warrant. It was never about US sovereignty.
"Nonetheless, the prosecutor’s dismissal will harden views in many developing countries, particularly in Africa, that the court is more willing to bring cases against their citizens than against those of powerful countries. They are not wrong."
"Nonetheless, the prosecutor’s dismissal will harden views in many developing countries, particularly in Africa, that the court is more willing to bring cases against their citizens than against those of powerful countries. They are not wrong." www.economist.com/mi...
"#Oekraïne richt zijn drones op het Russische platform #Wildberries. Wat voor bedrijf is dat?"—Eva Cukier NRC www.nrc.nl/nieuws/20...
6 years of work, 3 universities, 25 authors—and our brainchild with Niels Blokker is now a tangible object in the physical world. "Governance of International Courts and Tribunals: Institutions, Practices, and Norms" has just been published by Oxford Uuniversity Press. share.google/bMYuESLBSdcA...
Two years ago, Putin had Alexei #Navalny killed. "The circumstances ... have red flags all over them and scream ‘murder’, I wrote back then, without hoping the direct cause of death would ever be revealed. Now we know what the murder weapon was. The perpetrators must be held to account.
"Governance of International Courts and Tribunals: Institutions, Practices, and Norms" now has its own OUP page. Here's hoping some of these courts' governing bodies & like-minded states manage to avert the worst before this book comes out (and becomes an obituary). global.oup.com/academic/pro...
UN Experts: "the unprovoked use of armed force on Venezuelan sovereign territory is a clear breach of Art 2(4) of the UN Charter... It may also constitute the international crime of aggression attributable to the individual political and military leaders involved." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
As it turns out, the quasi-legal pretext for invading another state, killing 80 people there, and abducting its (then) head of state had no basis in facts. Who would have thought?
Under the Donroe Doctrine, the United States can finally take its proud place as a regional imperial superpower that is no longer embarrassed to say so.
You attack another state, depose and abduct its leader, bring him and his family member to your own court, and indict them with multiple conspiracy charges. Where is international law on the use of force and immunities in all of this? At least, the US are not convening an "international tribunal".
So, 2026 starts off with an illegal regime change carried out by the US. If the Trump administration maintains that this act was lawful under int'l law and a good precedent, it would expose Trump himself, Herzog/Netanyahu—or any other state leader—to similar military cum law-enforcement operations.
Art 21(1) TEU provides that the Union’s action on the international scene shall be guided by respect for the UN Charter and international law principles. Why's there not a word of condemnation of US act of aggression—nor even an expression of "concern"? Call things by their name or lose credibility.
Today US carried out strikes against Venezuela. Reportedly, Delta Force captured 🇻🇪 ruler Maduro and his wife and shipped them out of the country. Zero sympathy for dictatorships. But this operation is a flagrant breach of international law. A rogue state enforcing the law of the jungle, anno 2026.
2025 was a disastrous year for human rights. States failed to halt genocide and several major srmed conflicts. Prospects for a just peace remain illusory. Let 2026 be the year of accountability and bring us the execution of all high-profile ICC arrest warrants. A happier social construction!
This US administration began by sanctioning international civil servants—the elected officials of the ICC—and has now moved on to sanctioning a former European Commissioner. Will the EU continue to act as if nothing extraordinary is happening and fail to use its Blocking Statute?
Only criminal organisations retaliate against judges and prosecutors. Only rogue regimes attack international courts for merely doing their job. This has to be said. This is what Trump's United States and Putin's Russia are doing to the International Criminal Court, in the full view of the world.
The pretext for this unlawful coercive measure against the judges is their involvement in the Appeals Chamber, which recently rejected Israel's appeal. This is an act of direct retaliation. Rubio and his boss are unfamiliar with the concept of judicial independence. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...
"The blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another" constitutes an act of aggression (Art 3c 1974 Definition, UNGAR 3314). It may trigger Venezuela's right of self-defence if it meets the Art 51 UNC threshold. Trump's US is a threat to international peace and security.
Massive victory for the Anti-Corruption Foundation's legal team in Strasbourg: the ECtHR ruled in favour of the applicants in FBK & others v Russia (App nos 13505/20 etc). The ECtHR found violations of: - art 8 - art 1 Protocol 1 - art 11 (foreign agent designation) - art 18 (political motives)
Important ICC judgment today in the Situation in the State of #Palestine. The ICC Appeals Chamber dismisses Israel's appeal against the PTC decision on Israel's request for an order to the Prosecution to give an Art 18(1) notice from 21 November 2024 www.icc-cpi.int/site...
This banger is out—and it’s what was needed: a chronicle of repression and resistance in a country warped by fascist authoritarianism. The Putin era is overstaying its welcome, but it must, and will, end. And we cannot understand it without stories like Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina’s. A must-read.
Trump's hunt on the ICC is all about impunity for himself, his administration, and US clients. US threatens to sanction more officials and the Court itself, unless it revokes the warrants and stops investigations. The Statute must be amended, too—or else.
On 3 December 2025, ICC #ASP24 adopted a declaration wherein States Parties reaffirmed their unwavering support for the ICC, their commitment to the principles and values of the Statute, and expressed their grave concern about threats and coercive measures, as well as their impact. All good, but