ISESCO: For Immediate Release: Conference on Israeli war crimes to be held in Rabat with the objective of bringing Israeli war criminals before the ICC

On Saturday and Sunday in Rabat: International Conference on “Israel: War Crimes and Genocide” under the Aegis of ISESCO

Rabat: 11/2/2009 A Conference on “Israel: War Crimes and Genocide” will be held by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), in cooperation with Palestinian, regional and international human rights organizations, on 14-15 February 2009, at ISESCO headquarters in Rabat. This event will bring together Palestinian, regional and international NGOs, and a host of international lawyers, international law experts and eyewitnesses to Israel’s recent crimes against humanity in Gaza. The Conference is aimed at conducting legal studies and research on the war crimes and crimes against humanity being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian civilians; collecting evidence to support human rights reports in this connection; and considering possible ways to benefit from the international human rights movement calling for the trial of the Israeli political and military leaders for their crimes in Gaza. The Conference will seek also to coordinate the efforts of the different international human rights actors and organizations, in a bid to prepare elaborate legal documentation and evidence on Israel’s crimes against humanity and war crimes, in such a way as to convict the perpetrators and sue them at the European national courts having universal criminal jurisdiction. Among other objectives of the Conference is to consider available means and possible actions likely to help bring the perpetrators before the International Criminal Court (ICC), and to invite its Prosecutor together with the UN General Assembly to assume their responsibilities in this regard. Several themes are on the Conference’s agenda. These include reviewing the international legislation and the UN resolutions confirming the right of the Palestinian people to independence and to establish its independent State; documenting Israel’s repetitive breach of those laws and resolutions, presenting firsthand testimonies on the Israeli crimes in Gaza to be provided by Palestinian human rights activists in Gaza, and European and Arab doctors who went there during the war and who has keep samples of infected human tissue of the Palestinians injured. The participants will also review the efforts being made by the regional and international human rights organizations to document the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian civilians and educational, cultural and academic institutions, in such away as to provide enough evidence to bring the Israeli political and military officials to international justice and try them at the ICC and the national courts in the European countries. The Conference will be opened by ISESCO Director General, Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, who will deliver an address on this occasion in which he will highlight the importance of the Conference to be held as part of ISESCO’s fields of competence as the Palestinian cause lies at the heart of joint Islamic action.

For Immediate Release: ICC: No decision made on arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir

 

Press Release: 12.02.2009

 

 

No decision concerning possible arrest warrant against President Al Bashir of Sudan

 

ICC-CPI-20090212-PR389 عربي

 

 

Situation: Sudan

Following press articles published today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) wishes to inform the media that no arrest warrant has been issued by the ICC against President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan. No decision has yet been taken by the judges of Pre-Trial Chamber I concerning the Prosecutor’s application of 14 July 2008 for the issuance of such a warrant.

The Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision will be made public by the normal way of a press release and publication on the Court’s website.

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For further information please contact Ms Laurence Blairon, Spokesperson, Head of the Public Affairs Unit, Public Information and Documentation Section at +31 (0)70 515 87 14 or +31 (0) 6 46 44 88 89 or at laurence.blairon@icc-cpi.int.