Greater than 120 international locations which might be a part of the Worldwide Prison Court docket are obliged to implement the arrest warrants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are actually fugitives from justice after the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) issued arrest warrants towards them over suspected warfare crimes in Gaza.
Whereas Israel doesn’t recognise the authority of the ICC and Netanyahu and Gallant is not going to flip themselves in, the pair’s world simply obtained quite a bit smaller.
The Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, contains 124 state events throughout six continents. Below the statute, international locations which might be a part of the ICC are legally certain to implement its arrest warrants, in line with worldwide human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab.
“The regulation operates on the premise of a presumption that individuals will obey it. That’s how all legal guidelines are created,” Kuttab advised Al Jazeera.
“You anticipate all people to respect the regulation. Those that don’t respect the regulation are themselves violating the regulation.”
He added that there have been early indicators that international locations wouldn’t ignore the court docket’s determination. Lots of Israel’s allies — together with the European Union — have dedicated to imposing the arrest warrants, Kuttab identified.
Netanyahu has rebuked the fees and known as them anti-Semitic.
Right here is the checklist of nations the place Netanyahu and Gallant may very well be detained after the ICC’s determination:
A
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Andorra
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
B
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
C
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Prepare dinner Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
D
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
E
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
F
G
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
H
I
J
Okay
L
- Latvia
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
M
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
N
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
P
- Palestine
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
R
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
S
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
T
- Tajikistan
- Timor-Leste
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
U
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Uruguay
V
Z
