{"id":119489,"date":"2023-10-21T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=119489"},"modified":"2023-10-21T08:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:21:19","slug":"im-a-lawyer-investigating-russian-war-crimes-trying-to-get-putin-in-the-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/world-news\/im-a-lawyer-investigating-russian-war-crimes-trying-to-get-putin-in-the-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m a lawyer investigating Russian war crimes trying to get Putin in the dock’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian troops have been accused of heinous war crimes over the past 20 months of war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Rape, torture and the massacre of civilians are among the allegations raised by Kyiv and international organisations monitoring the course of the conflict in the eastern European country.<\/p>\n

Claims of war crimes are not limited to single soldiers or battalions, and have made their way to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

In March, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accused of involvement in the child abductions allegedly undertaken in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) is investigating the war crime allegations and incidents registered so far – more than 110,000, with experts at international human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance (GRC) lending their support to tackle this immense workload.<\/p>\n

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Among them is Anna Mykytenko, senior lawyer and the Ukraine Country Manager at GRC, who shed light on the work being carried out by Ukrainian authorities.<\/p>\n

Asked if there is a chance Putin will ever be tried in court, she told Express.co.uk: “Despite his diplomatic immunity, Putin already may be arrested in the territory of the ICC state parties and brought to the Hague. This is on the basis of the arrest warrant issued last year for the deportation of children.<\/p>\n

“Ukrainian authorities continue gathering evidence of other war crimes to ensure further charges, and hopefully the time to see Putin in the dock will come soon.”<\/p>\n

The Russian president has so far been avoiding arrest by only travelling to countries that don’t recognise the authority of the ICC.<\/p>\n

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