Last month, the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab published a report alleging that at least 6,000 children from Ukraine had been sent to Russian “re-education” camps in the past year. It is unclear how many children have been taken from Ukraine by Russian forces. ![]() ![]() In deciding to issue the warrants, the ICC pre-trial chamber of judges considered keeping the warrants secret but decided that making them public could “contribute to the prevention of the further commission of crimes”.Ġ1:09 ICC issuing Putin an arrest warrant a 'historic moment', says Dominic Raab – video But the Russian leader will face limits on his freedom of travel to the ICC’s 123 member states, further deepening his isolation. Putin is likely to evade justice in the near future: Russia does not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, and insisted on Friday it was not affected by the warrants. Bashir was also ousted and is currently in jail in Sudan, though he has yet to be transferred to The Hague. Gaddafi was toppled and killed months after his warrant was announced. ![]() The warrants are the first to be issued by the ICC for crimes committed in the Ukraine war, and it is one of the rare occasions when the court has issued a warrant for a sitting head of state, putting Putin in the company of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.
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