6 June 2025: The United States has placed sanctions on four ICC judges. Two of the sanctioned judges authorised the issue of arrest warrants for Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr. Yoav Gallant. The other two sanctioned judges authorised an investigation into alleged crimes by US personnel in Afghanistan.
6 June 2025: On 24 July 2025, Trial Chamber V of the International Criminal Court will deliver its judgement in The Prosecutor v. Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona. Yetakom and Ngaïssona were both charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the territory of the Central African Republic between December 2013 and August 2014.
4 June 2025: A former Rwandan radio journalist, Mr. Bicamumpaka, was recently detained and charged in France for genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity allegedly carried out during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
3 June 2025: The Paris Assize Court sentenced Majdi Nema to ten years in prison for complicity in war crimes that were committed in Eastern Ghouta between the years of 2013-2016. Majdi Nema was found guilty of recruitment of minors aged 15-18, and conspiracy to commit war crimes.
26 May 2025: Last week, Hungarian legislators ratified the decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
23 May 2025: On May 12th, Libya declared its acceptance of the ICC's jurisdiction under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. This will apply from at least 2011 until the end of 2027.
19 May 2025: On May 9th, 40 global leaders expressed their support for establishing a special international tribunal for prosecuting the alleged crimes of aggression committed on the territory of Ukraine. This support was expressed through a joint agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe, on a proposal of a statute that is yet to be published.
30 April 2025: Last week, the ICC Appeals Chamber overturned Pre-Trial Chamber I's rejection of Israel’s request to suspend arrest warrants on the basis that the Court lacked jurisdiction. As such, the Appeals Chamber has referred the matter back to Pre-Trial Chamber I.
29 April 2025: Majdi Nema, a former spokesperson for an armed rebel group in Syria, has gone on trial in France on allegations of war crimes.
16 April 2025: Michael Sang Correa, a Gambian national, has been found guilty by a US federal court of five counts of torture and one count of conspiracy to commit torture. Correa's crimes were carried while serving in the Junglers, a Gambian military unit accused of numerous international crimes.
11 April 2025: Today, the Trust Fund for Victims, together with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, held a commemorative ceremony for the victims of crimes against humanity committed between March and April 2011 in Côte d’Ivoire.
8 April 2025: A Gambian man accused of torture, Michael Sang Correa, has gone on trial in a US federal court in Denver, Colorado. Correa was an alleged former member of the Junglers, a military unit accused of numerous international crimes.
14 March 2025: A Finnish court has sentenced a Russian national, Vojislav Torden, to life imprisonment in relation to four war crimes carried out in Ukraine in 2014. At the time, the individual was the commander of a Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group.
11 March 2025: Rodrigo Duterte, former President of the Republic of the Philippines, has been arrested in Manila reportedly following the issuing of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity committed during his "war on drugs".
12 February 2025: A Swedish court has found a 52-year old Swedish woman guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes for her treatment of Yazidi children and women in Syria in 2015 and sentenced her to 12 years in prison.
11 February 2025: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan KC, has been sanctioned by the U.S. following President Trump's creation of an Executive Order "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court".
4 February 2025: The creation of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine has just been announced. The court will be created within the context of the Council of Europe and will seek to try Russian military and political leaders for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
24 January 2025: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has applied for arrest warrants to be issued against two individuals in the situation in Afghanistan for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds.
23 January 2025: Italian authorities arrested Osama Elmasry Njeem, subject to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant (under seal) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, in Turin on 19 January. However, authorities later stated that it had released and returned the individual to Libya based on a procedural irregularity during his arrest.
