4 days ago · Various national courts, aided by the IIIM, have prosecuted Syrian officials who happened to be found in their country under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction.

2 days ago · International criminal justice experts have indeed referred to the pictures as a “smoking gun” documenting “industrial scale killing,” the sort of record ... In 2023, for example, Canada and the Netherlands initiated interstate proceedings against Syria before the UN International Court of Justice for violations of the convention ...

Jan 17, 2025 · THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan made an unannounced visit Friday to Damascus to confer with the leader of Syria’s de facto government on how to ensure accountability for alleged crimes committed in …

Jan 17, 2025 · International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan held discussions on Friday with Syrian authorities on how the war crimes tribunal could help in their efforts to prosecute crimes allegedly ...

Jan 18, 2025 · The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan met with Ahmad al-Sharaa, Syria's new leader, to discuss options for pursuing justice for victims of torture and war crimes ...

Jan 17, 2025 · The International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) chief prosecutor has made an unannounced visit to Syria to meet with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of Syria’s new de facto government, to discuss how ...

Sep 26, 2024 · There have been efforts to hold the Syrian state accountable—namely, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case brought by the Netherlands and Canada focused on violations of the Convention Against Torture as well as criminal prosecution of individuals, notably in Koblenz, Germany and Paris, France. But to date, many of the most ...

Sep 17, 2013 · Could the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria? For now, the answer is no. Syria is not a member state of the Rome Statute...

Apr 8, 2015 · Since the summer of 2014, my Office has been receiving and reviewing disturbing allegations of widespread atrocities committed in Syria and Iraq by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Greater Syria ("ISIS" aka "ISIL", "Daesh" or "IS").

Jan 17, 2025 · The International Criminal Court (ICC) - a war crimes court based in The Hague - had been unable to deal with Syria because Damascus never ratified the Rome Statute, the tribunal’s founding treaty.