Chris Stephen
Journalist at Freelance
Author: The Future of War Crimes Justice (2024) Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (2006) War correspondent The Guardian + other media
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3 weeks ago |
danperry.substack.com | Chris Stephen |Dan Perry
By Chris StephenWhat does a court do when it has no cases to try? Shut down? Sell the furniture? Hire out robes and courtroom for weddings and bachelor parties? That was the problem facing the International Criminal Court. Its judges knew that when their existing cases wound up this summer, there were no more to come. Not because the ICC has no suspects. There are more than 30 at large, but none are being arrested. By this time next year, the jail would be empty, and the courtroom too.
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2 months ago |
danperry.substack.com | Chris Stephen |Dan Perry
The US Treasury has sanctioned the troubled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, in the first move against the court by the Trump administration (and as foreseen on these pages two months ago). Khan is now banned from the United States, and any assets and bank accounts he owns there will be frozen, after Trump complained about the court’s warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
danperry.substack.com | Chris Stephen |Dan Perry
By Chris StephenThe International Criminal Court has suffered a new blow to its authority after Italy released a key Libyan suspect in defiance of the court’s wishes. Libyan police general Osama Njeem was accused by the ICC of murder, torture and sexual violence as alleged boss of a detention center in the capital Tripoli. His arrest and release have been dramatic, verging on bizarre. Njeem had been in the court’s crosshairs for a while.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
cepa.org | Catherine Sendak |Ilya Timtchenko |Chris Stephen |Edward Lucas
Reauthorize, extend, and increase funds to USAI and other authorities: The USAI train-and-equip authority should be extended for a five-year period, covering Fiscal Years 2026 through 2031 which will enable consistent planning as the current annual/semi-annual reauthorization process can create unnecessary delays in execution.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
cepa.org | Andrei Soldatov |Irina Borogan |Aura Sabadus |Chris Stephen
Turkey may object to the Kremlin’s behavior in Syria, and other places like Libya, but there remain several areas where two countries seem to be in near-perfect lockstep — the most important being Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Russian House, a branch of Rossotrudnichestvo, a main tool of the Russian soft power effort abroad, operates with complete freedom in Turkey. And it uses that liberty to openly promote the war in Ukraine.
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