{"id":131346,"date":"2023-03-20T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=131346"},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T06:52:21","slug":"international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrant-against-vladimir-putin-for-war-crimes-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrant-against-vladimir-putin-for-war-crimes-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine : <\/strong>The\u00a0International Criminal Court\u00a0on 17 March issued an\u00a0arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0on charges of\u00a0war crimes.

An overview of the news

The move\u00a0mandates 123 member states\u00a0to arrest Putin and transfer him to The Hague for trial if he steps onto their territory. It was immediately\u00a0rejected by Moscow\u00a0while Ukraine on the other hand welcomed the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong>

Why did the International Criminal Court issue the warrants?<\/strong>

The International Criminal Court says Putin committed war crimes in Ukraine. He is responsible for the crime of kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children. According to the court, these crimes were allegedly committed from 24 February 2022 on Ukrainian-occupied territory. The court also issued a warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia\u2019s commissioner for children\u2019s rights.

International Criminal Court (ICC)<\/strong>

It was set up in July 2002 under the Rome treaty of 1998. It is the only permanent court to prosecute persons for crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes and crimes of agression.  At present 123 countries are its members. The United States, China, and Israel are not its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong>

The court’s jurisdiction  extends to offences that occurred after July 1, 2002, that were committed either in a state that has ratified the agreement or by a national of such a state or the case which was referred to it by the United Nations Security Council.

The Headquarters of ICC: The Hague, Netherlands

ICC is different from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

ICJ is a United Nations court which hears disputes involving the member states of the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine : The\u00a0International Criminal Court\u00a0on 17 March issued an\u00a0arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0on charges of\u00a0war crimes. An overview of the news The move\u00a0mandates 123 member states\u00a0to arrest Putin and transfer him to The Hague for trial if he steps onto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":131347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5004],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-131346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2023","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131348,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131346\/revisions\/131348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131346"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=131346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}