ICC supporters meet in London
As Putin shows he can slip out of Russia without being arrested
Justice ministers from more than 40 countries will be meeting in London this morning to support war crimes investigations by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ministers will be addressed by Karim Khan KC, the court’s prosecutor, who announced arrest warrants for the Russian president and his children’s commissioner on Friday afternoon.
The co-hosts are Dominic Raab, the justice secretary, and Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, minister of justice and security in the Netherlands where the ICC is based. There will be opening speeches from Ukraine’s justice minister and prosecutor general.
The UK is announcing an additional payment to the court of £395,000. That doesn’t sound very much, even though the government says “it brings total UK support this year to £1 million, doubling the existing amount of extra funding provided to the ICC from the UK”.
Beyond that, not a lot has been announced about the meeting. There is a press release — not yet published on the Ministry of Justice website1 — but legal commentators have not been offered briefings or invited to attend. So what’s going on?
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