Dimir Putin may be arrested in these countries, but… question raised after ICC’s arrest warrant
A few days ago an arrest warrant was issued against Russian President Vladimir Putin. This warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the case of war crimes in Ukraine. The ICC said in its statement that this arrest warrant against Putin and Maria has been issued in the crime of war crime.
Putin was also accused of illegally taking Ukrainian children to Russia. The ICC has accused Putin of being involved in the deportation of children. At the same time, Russia denied the allegations of atrocities during the attack in the month of February last year, saying that it does not give importance to the decision of the ICC. In such a situation, let’s try to know in which countries he can be arrested and whether Putin will be prosecuted under these charges?
So will Vladimir Putin be arrested?
According to the BBC report in this case, the International Criminal Court says that enough evidence has been gathered regarding the war crime against Vladimir Putin and Maria. Although the ICC has not given detailed details in this regard, Rachel Denver, associated with Human Rights Watch, believes that the ICC has collected a lot of evidence related to war crimes and handed it over to the court. In this, many cases have been recorded on mobile phones or cameras.
How long will the evidence last in court?
According to the same BBC report, Gary Simpson, Professor of International Law, says that this path is long and complicated and as far as arrest is concerned, there can be nothing special in it. Because who will arrest them? People of Russia will not do it and this can be possible only when Russia loses this war and it is occupied by another country.
If Putin goes to a country that has signed the International Court of Justice agreement, then that country will be legally bound to arrest Putin. So let’s know which are the countries that have an agreement with the ICC.
ICC has agreement with these countries
According to the information available on the ICC website, 123 countries of the world are its members. These include 33 African countries, 19 Asian countries, 19 Eastern European countries, 28 Latin American and Caribbean countries and 25 Western European and other countries. ICC member countries are Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Congo, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Maldives, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Sweden, Spain Countries like Tajikistan, UK and Venezuela are included.
Where will the screw get stuck
The ICC may have issued an arrest warrant against Putin, but the case cannot be issued until he is taken into custody or Putin is not physically present. The second is also that it is difficult to run this case because Russia is not a member of the ICC and that is why it is not paying attention to this arrest warrant.
