According to chief prosecutor Karim Khan, the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Russian President Vladimir Putin will remain valid even after the end of the Russian war against Ukraine. “There is no statute of limitations for war crimes,” Khan said.
“Individuals – wherever they are in the world – must recognize that there is law and that authority comes with responsibility,” said the Briton. The arrest warrants would be tied to Putin and Russia’s children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the rest of their lives, Khan said. “Unless they come before the independent judges of the court, and the judges decide on the merits to dismiss a case.”
Arrest warrant issued for war crimes
The International Criminal Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Lvowa-Belowa for alleged war crimes in Ukraine at Khan’s request. They are said to be responsible for the deportation of Ukrainian children from occupied territories to Russia. Above all, the arrest warrants have a symbolic meaning and a trial seems to be out of the question at the moment.
British lawyer Geoffey Nice, chief prosecutor for former Serbian head of state Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, said the arrest warrant had labeled Putin a wanted criminal. “The label will stick for life unless he is tried and acquitted or, almost inconceivably, the International Criminal Court withdraws the warrant.” In any case, the arrest warrant is a “very, very important and very welcome step”.
Source: Krone
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