{"id":26291,"date":"2017-04-07T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T09:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=26291"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T09:50:05","slug":"south-africa-says-it-was-not-obliged-to-arrest-al-bashir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/south-africa-says-it-was-not-obliged-to-arrest-al-bashir.html","title":{"rendered":"South Africa says it was not obliged to arrest al-Bashir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">South Africa says it was not obliged to arrest al-Bashir<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">South Africa says it was not obliged to arrest al-Bashir:- South Africa is insisting to International Criminal Court judges that it did not have to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he visited Johannesburg in 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">At a hearing Friday lawyers for South Africa said the court&#39;s founding treaty, the Rome Statute, does not oblige authorities to arrest heads of state of countries that are not members of the court, such as Sudan.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">South African lawyer Dire Tladi told judges that &quot;there is no duty under international law in general, and in particular under the Rome Statute, on South Africa to arrest a serving head of a non-state party.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">ICC prosecutors have charged al-Bashir with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, but the ICC has no police force of its own to arrest him.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/04\/07\/south-africa-says-it-was-not-obliged-to-arrest-al-bashir.html<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/south-africa-says-it-was-not-obliged-to-arrest-al-bashir.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa says it was not obliged to arrest al-Bashir South Africa says it was not obliged to arrest al-Bashir:- South Africa is insisting to International Criminal Court judges that it did not have to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he visited Johannesburg in 2015. 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