Russia will no longer enforce any judgment issued by foreign courts. Putin promulgated the law
Vladimir Putin. Photo source: Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin Pool/Zuma Press/Profimedia
President Vladimir Putin promulgated a law that prohibits the execution in Russia of some judgments issued by foreign and international criminal courts, local media reported on Monday, according to Agerpres.
The new law stipulates that Russia will not enforce the decisions of foreign courts exercising criminal jurisdiction if this authority has been conferred on them by other states, without the participation of Russia, RIA Novosti reported.
The law also provides that the judgments of international tribunals will not be implemented in Russia if the jurisdiction of the respective courts is not based on a treaty signed by Russia or resolutions of the UN Security Council adopted in accordance with Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
The chapter authorizes the UN Security Council to impose measures when it identifies “a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression”.
The new law was published on the website of the official monitor of Russia.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued in March 2023 an arrest warrant in the name of Russian President Vladimir Putin for the crimes of forced deportation and illegal transfer of Ukrainian children to territories occupied by Russia during the war in Ukraine.
After this mandate, the Kremlin rejected the jurisdiction of this court with reference to Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials involved in the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
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Russia signed the Rome Statute, the founding document of the ICC, in 2000, but never ratified it, and in 2016 withdrew its signature after the court determined that Moscow's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea constituted a “permanent occupation.”
Despite the arrest warrant for the alleged deportation of Ukrainian children, Vladimir Putin at the time traveled to countries, such as Mongolia, which are signatories to the ICC statute and which ignored calls to arrest the Russian leader.
The Russian judiciary responded to the Kremlin leader's arrest warrant by sentencing, in absentia, nine prosecutors and judges of the ICC, including Karim Khan, Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez and Luz del Carmen Ibanezez Carranza, to prison terms ranging from 3.5 to 15 years.
Russia has accused ICC judges and prosecutors, among others, of initiating a criminal prosecution process that includes the arrest of representatives of a foreign state enjoying international immunity.
The chief prosecutor of the ICC, sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Russian judiciary. Eight judges of the Court also received punishments
