The extradition of a Rwandan man has become more likely now that the Appeals Court of The Hague has denied his request to forbid it. The man, Vénant R., born in 1949, has resided for years in the Netherlands, where he first applied for asylum in October 2000. He is suspected by the Rwandan authorities…
On 21 April 2021, the District Court of The Hague convicted a 31-year-old Syrian man, Ahmed al-Y., who had applied for asylum in the Netherlands, to a six-year prison sentence on charges of membership of a terrorist organisation and the war crime of outrage upon personal dignity. Ahmed al-Y. lived in Syria in 2015 and…
This September, it will be twenty years since the terrorist attacks on the United States on ‘9/11’. In response to the attacks, the U.S. intensified the war on terror, invaded Afghanistan and filled up the ad-hoc detention facility in Guantanamo Bay with roughly 780 alleged terrorists, originating from over 35 countries. Although the U.S. Department…
On 11 March, the district court of Rotterdam reached a verdict in the case against a Syrian man who had been arrested in June 2020 in the asylum reception centre in Balk in the north of the Netherlands. It’s an interesting case, for a number of reasons. First of all, because the public prosecutor at…
CICJ researchers Beatriz Mayans Hermida and Barbora Holá, recently published the article “Balancing ‘the International’ and ‘the Domestic’: Sanctions under the ICC Principle of Complementarity” in the Journal of International Criminal Justice. In the article, the authors look into the sentencing of international crimes at the domestic level, the role that they play in the…