{"id":12746,"date":"2023-03-17T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12746"},"modified":"2023-03-17T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:06:11","slug":"icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrant-for-putin-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12746","title":{"rendered":"ICC Judges Issue Arrest Warrant For Putin Over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The International Criminal Court on Friday announced it had issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the &#8220;unlawful deportation&#8221; of Ukrainian children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Hague-based ICC said it had also issued a warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia&#8217;s presidential commissioner for children&#8217;s rights, on similar charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ICC said in a statement, &#8220;Today, pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Putin &#8220;is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ICC said the crimes dated from February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;There are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes,&#8221; it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Putin was allegedly responsible both directly by committing the acts and for &#8220;failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The arrest warrants are being kept secret to protect victims and witnesses, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Credit: AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court on Friday announced it had issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the &#8220;unlawful deportation&#8221; of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6664,6665,1104,1210],"class_list":["post-12746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-icc-judges","tag-russian-president","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12748,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12746\/revisions\/12748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}