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Case Sheet · ICC The Prosecutor v. Habibullah Agha and Neda Mohammad Nadim Situation Situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Case Number ICC-02/17 Status Pre-Trial · At Large   Context Habibullah Agha  is a Minister of Education of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Neda Mohammad Nadim serves  as the acting Minister of Higher Education since October 2022. Pre-Trial Application for Arrest Warrant 6 March 2025 Arrest Warrant 9 September 2025 Crimes at Arrest Warrant Habibullah Agha Crimes against humanity Crime against humanity of prosecution on gender grounds · art. 7(1)(h) RS Mohammad Nadim Crimes against humanity Crime against humanity ...

Peace Through Law Review – September 2026 1 October 2026 · By Alberto Fierro Aldudo Alberto Fierro Aldudo holds an LL.M. from Maastricht University, where he specialised in international criminal law . LinkedIn · X This is the first issue of Peace Through Law Review, a monthly newsletter that compiles what has happened in international and hybrid criminal tribunals over the past month. International Criminal Court 3 September 2026 On 3 September 2026, Trial Chamber VII of the ICC held the first status conference in the case of The Prosecutor v. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri . The session focused on practical aspects of trial preparation, including the parties' use of evidence and witnesses, the disclosure obligations of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), and the start date of the trial. On 13 September 2026, Trial Chamber VII scheduled the opening of the trial for 4 May 2027. 8 September 2026 On 8 September 2026, Trial Chamber I of the ICC held th...

International Crimes Genocide Jurisdiction   ICTY   ICTR    ICC   ECCC     IRMCT Legal Definition Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Key Legal Instruments 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide   ...

International Crimes Crime of aggression  Jurisdiction   IMT   ICC   STCAU Legal Definition Crime of aggression means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations. A ct of aggression means the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations, such as: (a) The invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State of the territory of another State, or any military occupation, however temporary, resulting from such invasion or attack, or any an...

Case Sheet · IMT Nuremberg The United States, the French Republic, the United Kingdom, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics v. Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Bormann, Franz von Papen, Artur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche Proceeding Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg Status Closed · Sentence Served   Acquitted Closed · Deceased Context The International Military Tribunal was established in the summer of 1945 to try ...