International Criminal Court
Investigating War Crimes When the Ukraine War Isn’t Over
KOROPY, Ukraine — Four men tugged at long strips of fabric to lift a coffin out of the gaping hole in the backyard of a small house. They flung the lid open to reveal the moldy corpse of Oleksiy Ketler, who had been killed instantly by shrapnel when a mortar fell on the road in […]
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In Ukraine War, a Long Journey Begins in Prosecuting Rape
She is appealing to other countries that are party to the international court to consider opening their own prosecutions into allegations of Russia’s sex crimes by claiming universal jurisdiction — the legal principle that some violations are so odious they are an affront to humanity at large, and therefore can be tried by any nation’s […]
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U.S. Weighs Shift to Support Hague Court as It Investigates Russian Atrocities
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is vigorously debating how much the United States can or should assist an investigation into Russian atrocities in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. The Biden team strongly wants to see President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and others in […]
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