Do States Party to the International Criminal Court Statute have the Obligation to Arrest Vladimir Putin?

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Yunqing LIU is a Ph.D. researcher at Edinburgh Law School and Renmin University of China. Her research interests include public international law, international legal theory, and the history of international law.

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Do States Party to the International Criminal Court Statute have the Obligation to Arrest Vladimir Putin?

April 14, 2023

Yunqing Liu

Background On 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’ or ‘the Court’) issued two arrest warrants for people related to the Ukraine situation, including one for Vladimir Putin, who as President of the Russian Federation is the head of a state that is not a party to the Rome Statute…