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[–] [email protected] 200 points 4 months ago (12 children)

The CNN headline is a bit misleading. It's not the International Criminal Court as a whole that is seeking these arrest warrants but the ICC's chief prosecutor Karim Khan. The judges have yet to decide on these warrants.

[Side note: This is the same kind of lazy journalism that uses terms like EU chief or EU leader interchangeably for the President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen) and the President of the European Council (Charles Michel). If this was limited to a short headline, I could excuse it, but CNN continues with the same wording in the first sentence of the article: "The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for ..." which is absolutely unnecessary, even if CNN clarifies things later.]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Ok, this is very interesting. How is it he took this initiative? Actually, is it an initiative or part of the process?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It's part of the process. Now the request is before judges who will decide whether or not to issue the arrest warrants. For reference, when an ICC prosecutor asked for an arrest warrant for Vladmir Putin, it took a couple months for the judges to decide and then issue the warrant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know nothing about the process. How can a decision take months? What else are they doing? Are there counter arguments or something happening in the meantime?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The judges have to read and verify the documents they got for this case. This takes some weeks to months.

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