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 at the moment are fugitives from justice after the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) issued arrest warrants in opposition to them over suspected warfare crimes in Gaza.
Whereas Israel doesn’t recognise the authority of the ICC and Netanyahu and Gallant won’t flip themselves in, the pair’s world simply acquired lots smaller.
The Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, contains 124 state events throughout six continents. Beneath the statute, international locations which might be a part of the ICC are legally certain to implement its arrest warrants, based on worldwide human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab.
“The regulation operates on the idea of a presumption that folks will obey it. That’s how all legal guidelines are created,” Kuttab instructed Al Jazeera.
“You count on everyone 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 courtroom’s choice. Lots of Israel’s allies — together with the European Union — have dedicated to implementing the arrest warrants, Kuttab identified.
Netanyahu has rebuked the costs and known as them anti-Semitic.
Right here is the record of nations the place Netanyahu and Gallant could possibly be detained after the ICC’s decision:
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
Ok
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
