Prosecutor-general says ICC should hold trials in absentia for the crime of aggression
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: MIKHAIL SVETLOV/GETTY IMAGES
Kostin spoke after meeting with the chief ICC prosecutor, which last week issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him and his children’s commissioner of the war crime of deporting children from Ukraine to Russia. The special tribunal should go after “the highest political and military leadership, including Putin, for the crime of aggression,” Kostin said.
The only recent example of an international trial in absentia was in the case of Lebanon, for which a UN-backed tribunal convicted three men for the 2005 assassination of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri.
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