@fidh_en Permanent Representation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) | MA in Political Science - Conflicts and International Crises | also journalist
🔴On 1 Dec German authorities surrendered Libyan suspect El Hishri to the @IntlCrimCourt. His transfer marks a key step toward justice for victims of grave crimes in Libya and successful cooperation with the Court.
See our joint NGO statement here 👇https://t.co/xtCeLBwr4z
🔴 FIDH is at #ASP24, a decisive moment at a time where the @IntlCrimCourt and its supporters are under attack.
#ICC principals at opening plenary addressed concerns and recommendations, shared by FIDH: 🔗https://t.co/XhAi4P14UK
🔴Will ICC States Parties protect the @IntlCrimCourt or let it be dismantled?
From 1-6 December at #ASP24, States will face a decisive moment.
FIDH publishes its position paper with 4️⃣ key recommendations to the Assembly:
Read more here: https://t.co/CAJWfppi9u
Joint Global Call to #SaveTheICC
🚨 Reliable sources indicate the US plans to sanction the #ICC as an institution.
Such sanctions would be an all-out assault on international justice, leaving victims without a last resort for accountability.
Read the full statement here: https://t.co/6i6rwF5oQK
Sign on here: https://t.co/bRphF0LIqx
🚨On Wenesday, the @IntlCrimCourt held the reparations hearing in the #AlHassan case. FIDH, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ), @ASFCanada and Redress reiterate our call for the full recognition of the gendered and intersectional harms suffered by victims, including a presumption of victimhood for all Timbuktu residents during the period of persecution. Reparations should be victim-centred, restorative, co-created by the victims, and implemented in ways that safeguard victims’ protection, especially in light of the ongoing, volatile security situation in Mali.
⚖️ “Victims from Timbuktu continue to live with the consequences of forced displacement, insecurity and community fragmentation. This hearing is a vital opportunity to ensure reparations address their needs, uphold their dignity, and help prevent further harm.” – Drissa Traoré, FIDH.
Former chief of the Islamic Police in Timbuktu and member of Ansar Dine, an armed group linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Hassan was convicted in 2024 for war crimes and crimes against humanity between 2012 and 2013.
While the majority of the judges found that Mr Al Hassan had participated in the commission of #gender-based crimes with intent & knowledge, this did not lead to convictions because of the application of the defence of duress by one of the same majority judges.
Read our statement here 👇🏽
https://t.co/vG4CFifhsK
#ICC #Mali #HumanRights #Reparations the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ)
🚨 NEW @fidh_en@FHRI2 statement: The @IntlCrimCourt begins the first-ever in absentia confirmation hearing against Joseph #Kony - an historic moment for 5,795 victims and survivors in Uganda who are authorised to participate in the proceedings. Kony faces 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed in Northern Uganda (2002–2005), including #genderbasedcrimes and crimes against #children.
This hearing marks a significant step in recognising the suffering of women, girls, and boys while ensuring these crimes are taken seriously as core international crimes, confronted without stigma, and addressed through accountability processes.
“Joseph Kony and the LRA orchestrated heinous crimes, including against women and children, from which communities still suffer to this day. The hearing has the potential to bring these atrocities into the public and policy limelight once again, and galvanise efforts to finally arrest Kony”, said Dr Livingstone Sewanyana, Executive Director of FHRI.
Read our full statement here: https://t.co/tStfOUiPVA
Read our Q&A on the hearing here: https://t.co/3lMzIq2HUV
🚨 FIDH welcomes the arrest of Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri by German authorities on 16 July 2025, pursuant to an #ICC arrest warrant.❗Germany must now ensure El Hishri’s prompt surrender to the ICC so proceedings can move forward without delay.
🚨 FIDH welcomes today’s verdict by Trial Chamber V of the International Criminal Court (#ICC) against two Anti-Balaka leaders from the Central African Republic (#CAR].
👉 After nearly four years of trial, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona were found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between 2013 and 2014, in the context of the conflict between Séléka and Anti-Balaka armed groups. The ICC judges sentenced Alfred Yekatom to 15 years in prison and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona to 12 years.
⚖️ While the trial of a Seleka leader remains ongoing before the ICC, this verdict marks a crucial step: the recognition of the responsibility of Anti-Balaka commanders for crimes such as murder, forced displacement, torture, and persecution, the effects of which are still deeply felt today.
Nearly 2,000 victims participated in the trial proceedings, reaffirming that victims must be at the heart of international justice.
❗We regret, however, the absence of convictions for rape and the use of child soldiers - crimes that are nonetheless well documented in #CAR.
📄 Read our reaction at the opening of the ICC trial: https://t.co/l7aqIK01EF
#InternationalJustice #FIDH #HumanRights #CentralAfricanRepublic #AntiBalaka #ICC #Impunity #WarCrimes #Victims #VictimsRights
📸 ICC-CPI
🚨 FIDH condemns the #US government's @StateDept punitive sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied #Palestinian Territory, @FranceskAlbs. This is an attack on #internationallaw, the #UnitedNations, and on every victim who dares to pursue justice and accountability.
⚖️@fidh_en and @ARMANSHAHR_OA welcome the ICC arrest warrants against two Taliban leaders for gender persecution.
On 8 July 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Mr Haibatullah Akhundzada, Supreme Leader of the Taliban, and Mr Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Chief Justice of the Taliban, for the crime against humanity of gender persecution committed in Afghanistan from 15 August 2021 until at least 20 January 2025.
📢 @FIDH_en joins 85 civil society organisations calling on ICC States Parties, including 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇫🇷 France, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇬🇧 the UK, and others, to support, rather than stall, Rome Statute amendments that would enable the Court to deliver justice for victims of aggression.
📌 Happening now: States Parties to the ICC #RomeStatute are meeting in a special session at United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the 2010 Kampala Amendments on the crime of aggression.
⚖️ Adopting long-overdue amendments would allow the Court to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression on equal footing with other core crimes.
⚠️ Unlike genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression remains severely restricted. States Parties may currently opt out, and the Office of the Prosecutor is barred from investigating acts of aggression committed by nationals of non-States Parties, even when those acts occur on the territory of a State Party.
📣 We call on ICC states parties to fully harmonise the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression to allow the ICC to meaningfully exercise its jurisdiction over this crime. This is more than a legal technicality: it is about closing accountability gaps and strengthening international justice.
🌍 What happens now is a chance for States Parties to seize the opportunity to empower the ICC to deliver justice for all victims of Rome Statute crimes including aggression.
📄 Read our statement now: https://t.co/qL9eHgBixS
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