The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, approved on Tuesday, in the second and third readings, a bill that prohibits the enforcement of decisions issued by foreign criminal courts, a measure that protects the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, against the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to Agerpres.
According to the adopted rule, in Russia, decisions of courts from foreign states whose competencies have not been recognized by Russia or which are not based on resolutions of the UN Security Council will not be enforced. This refers to amendments to Article 6 of the Federal Constitutional Law on the Judicial System of the Russian Federation.
In March 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for 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 warrant, the Kremlin rejected the jurisdiction of this court with reference to Vladimir Putin and other high-ranking Russian officials involved in the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
Russia signed the Rome Statute, the founding document of the ICC, in 2000, but never ratified it, and in 2016 it withdrew its signature after the court determined that Moscow’s annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea constitutes a “permanent occupation”.
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