Netanyahu blasted the warrant as an example of "new antisemitism," while Hamas said it "demands the cancellation of all arrest warrants issued against leaders of the Palestinian resistance." Putin was the third serving president to be served with an ICC arrest warrant, after Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. An arrest warrant was issued for him in 2005. The prosecution wants to charge Kony with 36 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, using child soldiers, sexual slavery, forced marriage and forced pregnancy. In an odd twist, the current ICC prosecutor Karim Khan was the younger Gaddafi's defence lawyer at the ICC for a little over a year until withdrew in 2018.

Source: Libya Today May 21, 2024 15:43 UTC