Greater than 120 nations which are a part of the Worldwide Prison Court docket are obliged to implement the arrest warrants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are actually fugitives from justice after the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) issued arrest warrants towards them over suspected warfare crimes in Gaza.
Whereas Israel doesn’t recognise the authority of the ICC and Netanyahu and Gallant won’t flip themselves in, the pair’s world simply obtained loads smaller.
The Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, consists of 124 state events throughout six continents. Beneath the statute, nations which are a part of the ICC are legally certain to implement its arrest warrants, in keeping with worldwide human rights lawyer Jonathan Kuttab.
“The legislation operates on the idea of a presumption that individuals will obey it. That’s how all legal guidelines are created,” Kuttab informed Al Jazeera.
“You count on everyone to respect the legislation. Those that don’t respect the legislation are themselves violating the legislation.”
He added that there have been early indicators that nations wouldn’t ignore the court docket’s choice. Lots of Israel’s allies — together with the European Union — have dedicated to imposing the arrest warrants, Kuttab identified.
Netanyahu has rebuked the costs and referred to as them anti-Semitic.
Right here is the record of nations the place Netanyahu and Gallant could possibly be detained after the ICC’s decision:
A
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Andorra
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
B
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
C
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook dinner Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
D
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
E
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
F
G
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
H
I
J
Okay
L
- Latvia
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
M
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
N
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Norway
P
- Palestine
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
R
- Republic of Korea
- Republic of Moldova
- Romania
S
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
T
- Tajikistan
- Timor-Leste
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
U
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- United Republic of Tanzania
- Uruguay
V
Z