Luis Moreno Ocampo

Jan 17, 2025 | panorama.am | Luis Moreno Ocampo

By Luis Moreno Ocampo, former ICC chief prosecutor Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has resurrected one of Joseph Stalin's most sinister tools: the show trial. Just as Stalin's purges in the 1930s relied on forced confessions and sham trials to kill his rivals and strengthen his totalitarian grip on power, Aliyev is using judicial theatre to mask his crimes. Stalin's infamous show trials targeted his closest allies—old Bolsheviks, military generals, and secret police operatives.

Jan 16, 2025 | horizonweekly.ca | Luis Moreno Ocampo

By Luis Moreno OcampoFirst prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2003 to 2012Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has resurrected one of Joseph Stalin’s most sinister tools: the show trial. Just as Stalin’s purges in the 1930s relied on forced confessions and sham trials to kill his rivals and strengthen his totalitarian grip on power, Aliyev is using judicial theatre to mask his crimes.

Jan 7, 2025 | justsecurity.org | Luis Moreno Ocampo

Editor’s Note: This article is part of our ongoing symposium on the ICC and the Israel-Hamas war. Innocent children are at risk of starvation in Gaza. For more than a year, U.S. President Joe Biden has demanded that Israel respect international law and allow humanitarian assistance into Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara agreed that a national investigation should be conducted but disagree on the mechanism to use for such a process.

Nov 21, 2024 | abc.es | Luis Moreno Ocampo

¿Es posible implementar a nivel mundial ese legado de moderación y consenso de la transición a la democracia de España? La moderación a escala internacional es imprescindible, pues la innovación tecnológica del siglo XXI no ha sido acompañada de una renovación en materia institucional. El 75 por ciento de los habitantes del planeta tiene un teléfono móvil, pero seguimos viviendo en 193 países soberanos y la guerra sigue siendo una forma de resolver conflictos entre ellos.

Nov 12, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Luis Moreno Ocampo

Credit: Patrick Blower Last Sunday many Christian churches around the world conducted Ecumenical Prayer Services to call for the release of 23 ethnic Armenians unjustly detained in Baku. Today diplomats from all over the world are flying into the city for the UN Climate Conference (COP29). The lack of progress in tackling climate change, together with the 2023 “ethnic cleansing” of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, exposes a fundamental and recurring concern in world affairs: that “national...