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ICC’s selective justice raises credibility, legitimacy questions

WAR CRIMES

On March 17 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, for allegedly committing war crimes.

The warrant claims that the Russian president was “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”.

It further asserts that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal

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