#arrest putin

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Accept or not accept? That is the question

Arresting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would amount to a declaration of war on Russia, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa wrote in court papers released on Tuesday as the country wrangles over hosting the Russian leader.

Putin has been invited to a BRICS summit in Johannesburg next month but is the target of an international criminal court arrest warrant – a provision that Pretoria as an ICC member would be expected to implement were he to attend, AFP reports.

South Africa’s diplomatic dilemma is playing out in court, where the leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), is trying to force the government’s hand and ensure the Kremlin leader is held and handed over to the ICC if he steps foot in the country.

But in a responding affidavit, described the DA’s application as “irresponsible” and said national security was at stake.

Ramaphosa said:

Russia has made it clear that arresting its sitting President would be a declaration of war.

It would be inconsistent with our constitution to risk engaging in war with Russia.

Guardian

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Can we talk about how CRAZY it is that the UN General secretary visited Russia? Start a brutal war against your neighbour and then escelate it eight years later! Commit ecoterrorism, threaten nuclear terrorism, and intentionally and actively target civilians! In fact, why not kidnap them AND their kids and "rehome" those kids with your own citizens and punish them for expressing their own culture while you're at it! Commit genocide- as a treat! These actions have minimal consequences and absolutely will not make you a pariah state!

[agentfascinateur]

June 15th Peace Summit to end war on Ukraine 🕊️🤞🏼

This democracy is worth it. Slava Ukraini. 💙💛

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ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Vladimir Putin

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, a member of Putin's government, it announced in a news release Friday.

Lvova-Belova is the official at the center of the alleged scheme to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia.

The ICC said both Putin and Lvova-Belova are “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation."

Some key background: According to the US and several European governments, Putin's administration has carried out a scheme to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia, often to a network of dozens of camps, where the minors undergo political reeducation.

“Lvova-Belova’s efforts specifically include the forced adoption of Ukrainian children into Russian families, the so-called ‘patriotic education’ of Ukrainian children, legislative changes to expedite the provision of Russian Federation citizenship to Ukrainian children, and the deliberate removal of Ukrainian children by Russia’s forces,” the US Treasury said in September.

Her government title is commissioner for children’s rights in the Office of the Russian President.

The ICC statement Friday said there are "reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes," both for having committed the acts directly or through others in his command, and for "his failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates."

Russia has characterized reports of forcible relocation as “absurd” and said it does its “best” to keep minors with their families.

The ICC announcement comes just days after several US news outlets reported the court was planning to open two war crimes cases tied to the invasion of Ukraine and issue arrest warrants against “several people." According to the New York Times, the ICC was set to first open a case on Russia’s alleged abduction of Ukrainian children. Then a second case would focus on Moscow “unrelentingly” targeting civilian infrastructure, including water supplies and gas tanks.

The cases would represent the first international charges to be brought since the start of Russia’s war and come after months of work by special ICC investigation teams, according to the NYT.

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Journalists covering a demonstration in Moscow by wives of Russian soldiers were arrested by Putin's police.

Some 20 journalists were detained by police in central Moscow on Saturday at a rally of Russian soldiers' wives calling for their men to be returned from the front in Ukraine. Independent Russian news outlet SOTA reported that 27 people were taken from the demonstration and transported to the nearest police station. Reuters news agency said one of its journalists was among those detained while filming women laying red carnations at the tomb of the unknown soldier in the shadow of the Kremlin's walls in central Moscow. Moscow police did not comment on the raid. "Journalists should be free to report the news without fear of harassment or harm, wherever they are. We are committed to covering world events in an independent, unbiased, and reliable way, in keeping with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles," a Reuters spokesperson said in a statement. The demonstration was organized by a group called The Way Home, which urged "wives, mothers, sisters and children" of reservists from across Russia to come to Moscow to "demonstrate (their) unity." The Moscow prosecutor's office said Saturday that the rally had not been coordinated with the authorities. Authorities warned against calling for and participating in unauthorized demonstrations. For several weeks, wives of currently mobilized Russian men have been campaigning for their husbands' return from the front, as well as opposing further mobilization. 

In Russia, an "unauthorized demonstration" is one which does not support Putin and his fascist policies.

Speaking of fascists, Tucker Carlson is apparently in Moscow.

Tucker Carlson Being Spotted in Moscow Sparks Frenzied Speculation

The reported appearance of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in the Russian capital has sparked intense speculation over the purpose of the conservative media personality's visit to Moscow. Carlson arrived in Moscow on February 1, and was spotted attending the Bolshoi Theater in the capital, according to Russian outlet, Mash. Questions quickly swirled over why the TV anchor would have traveled to Moscow, and whether he intended to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin during the visit.

A Tucker interview with dictator Vladimir Putin would probably be as incisive as his interview with Trump. 😝 Perhaps Putin will let him see the famous Trump pee tapes.

Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll decide to defect while in Russia. His views are much more in tune with a totalitarian state than with the United States.

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Here's hoping his old pals in Russia decide he knows too much.

Oh, if Trump was Russian/in Russia, he definitely would have "fallen out a window" by now. So yes.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly growing increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for him and other top government officials for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The Times of Israelreported Sunday that the Israeli government, in partnership with the U.S., is "making a concerted effort to head off" possible arrest warrants from the ICC, which first launched its war crimes investigation in the occupied Palestinian territories in 2021.

Israel does not recognize the ICC's jurisdiction and has refused to cooperate with the probe. The ICC says it has jurisdiction over Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

Citing an unnamed Israeli government source, The Times of Israel reported that "a major focus of the ICC allegations will be that Israel 'deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza.'" Other officials who could face arrest warrants are Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

The Times of Israel's reporting came shortly after Israeli journalist Ben Caspit wrote that Netanyahu is "under unusual stress" over the possibility of arrest warrants and is leading a "nonstop push over the telephone" to forestall ICC action.

Like Israel, the U.S. is not a party to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC in 2002. The legal body is tasked with investigating individuals, not governments.

The U.S., Israel's leading arms supplier, has opposed the ICC's Palestine investigation from the start, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying in a 2021 statement that the court "has no jurisdiction over this matter" because "Israel is not a party to the ICC."

But the Biden administration vocally supported the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over war crimes committed in Ukraine, even though neither Russia nor Ukraine are parties to the Rome Statute.

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Watch "The Grayzone exposes shoddy ICC warrant against Putin" on YouTube

This one takes the cake.

I would say these are the most farcical charges I've ever seen, but they're being presented concurrently with the roll out of the Trump indictment, another farcical set of politically motivated charges.

The ICC Warrant accuses President Putin and his Director of Children's Welfare, Maria Llova-Belova, of literally kidnapping 16'000 Ukrainian children and forcing them against their will into a network of reeducation institutions spread across the Russian Federation "that stretches from the Black Sea all the way to the Pacific Coast" in order to retrain them and indoctrinate them into Russian ethnic and Nationalist views and even give them military training, describing the children as "hostages," though no evidence for this is provided.

The author of the report, Nathaniel Raymond even went on TV on CNN's Anderson Cooper's show and declared this was tantamount to genocide, connecting Putin's actions to Hitler's Nazi Germany.

These wild accusations are all based on a report conducted by an organization at Yale called the Humanitarian Research Lab, headed by Nathaniel Raymond which was in-turn funded openly by the US State Dept who contracted the Lab for the report and provided the HRL Team with access to Pentagon Satellites.

The report's authors conducted no ground investigation, no direct interviews, nor did they even request access to the sites in question, instead relying on Pentagon satellite imagery, similar to early fake investigations into the supposed Chinese Uyghur Camps. And it even appears that the State Dept contacted Yale's HRL and requested they form an investigative team two weeks before the Russian SMO began.

Nathaniel Raymond even admits in an interview that HRL was originally focused on Human Rights abuses in Afghanistan until they were pressured into investigating Russia by the State Dept two weeks before the beginning of the SMO.

In the HRL Report, the authors reference Russian news articles but appear to have used Google to translate the articles rather than an actual in-house translator. This despite being fully funded by the State Dept and Yale University, two sources for endless propaganda funds. They then chose to exclude actual testimony in those articles that quote the children from the program happily discussing how much they enjoyed the experience.

But the biggest and most obvious flaw in the narrative being pushed by the US and NATO in conjunction with the ICC is the fact that these are NOT in fact ethnic Ukrainian children being shipped off and retrained in Russian Nationalism.

That's not even remotely close to the truth.

These are children from families in Eastern Ukraine, specifically the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, suffering terribly under the weight of the war, who largely identify as ethnic Russians, speak Russian, and desperately want to get their children away from the frontlines: away from falling rockets and shells, away from the extreme poverty and destitution taking hold in Ukraine, away from the political corruption, away from the persecution against Russian speaking Ukrainians, and away from the economic and food access disruptions that have made life in Eastern Ukraine Hell for 9 years.

According to one violin instructor at a camp, many if not most of the children have lost a house, some have lost relatives and friends, and they cannot continue their musical instruction back home where only remote learning is possible. And even that is not always possible.

The report even concedes the children are participating in these cultural camps with direct parental consent and were returned to their families when they said they would be.

As for the facilities themselves, you don't have to believe me, believe the author of the report, Nathaniel Raymond who described the institutions as basically "teddy bears" at one point in an interview.

And according to the Yale HRL and the State Department's own paper:

"There is no documentation of child mistreatment, including sexual or physical violence, among the camps referenced in this report."

And of course there isn't.

These are NOT "reeducation camps" and ZERO evidence exists of ANY political training going on, of ANY kind, at ANY of the camps.

These are cultural institutions that offer music instruction and other artistic and scholastic outlets for these children to express themselves in a safe environment, without the fear of rockets and shells falling overhead. Children are brought, once again with the consent of their parents, to these educational and cultural facilities for an agreed upon period of time, usually a matter of a few days or weeks, and they are promptly returned to their families on time.

Most of these programs center around music or the arts and parents send their children to these facilities free of charge. The children are escorted safely into the Russian mainland, riding trains or busses where they get to observe beautiful lands and environments along the way. It is truly an escape for these children.

Some parents said they sent their children to the camp because they wanted to take advantage of a free trip for their child. Some hoped to protect their children from ongoing fighting, taking advantage of intact sanitation and nutritious food inaccessible from home. While others just wanted their children to enjoy a vacation at a time when few outlets for children exist in their hometowns.

The facilities themselves are described as generous: children are well fed and taken care of (something that's been difficult in war time), they get playtime, music instruction, therapy and schooling. Most of the children come from VERY low income families, badly affected by the war. Some are literally war refugees.

Therefore these people at the ICC, in the US Govt, and at NATO are basically demanding Russia return these children to Ukraine, into a war zone, where they can be brought into Western Ukraine, accused of being collaborators by the SBU, or returned to homes that no longer exist and are still under fire.

And again, I just can't stress this enough:

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab conducted NO on the ground reporting, conducted NO interviews, and DID NOT request access to the facilities housing these camps.

Read more about this ridiculous facade here:

It's truly astonishing just how far the US is willing to go to damage Russia.

Even the ICC itself has fallen under the weight of US Foreign Policy.

The US, like Russia, is NOT a member of the ICC and has actively fought its investigations over the years, imposing sanctions on the Court a few years ago, and even going so far as to pass what's known as the "Hague Invasion Act" aka the American Service-Members' Protection Act, that literally threatens to invade the Netherlands should the ICC ever detain American service members for War Crimes.

But as a Pro-Western leadership has recently gained control at the ICC, the US has found use in the Court once again as yet another tool for damaging Russia on the international stage.

Watch Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visit one of these camps in this video

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btw when u talk about the icc and israel u should know that they were one of the 7 countries that voted against the rome statute specifically because, "the action of transferring population into occupied territory" was included in the list of war crimes

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Russia issues warrant for Lindsey Graham

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what a crazy world huh

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Who’s ready for a new Tumblr holiday! 🥳

Upon hearing that their CW uncle, Dean Winchester, actually told Castiel he loved him back, the Riverdale gang (Archie, Betty, Jughead, and Veronica) decided to become a polycule. India celebrated by doing everything in their power to finally reach the moon, and succeeded!

Not everyone was happy, however. Upon hearing the news, the head of the Wagner group blamed Putin for the Riverdale polycule and tried to kill him, but Russian soldiers got to him first. In retaliation, pro-Baronihead shippers shot down the plane that the Wagner leader was on (most likely post mortem, not confirmed, but I think we all know what really happened…)

Donald heard about what happened, and assuming the worst about his boyfriend, Vladimir Putin, Trump turned himself in during a moment of weakness and grief.

Germany, on the other hand, was just glad that the plane shot down wasn’t on their territory, and to make sure that anti-Baronihead shippers wouldn’t harass people, they made citizenship laws more lenient as Germany as a whole is, in fact, pro-Baronihead. Therefore, the Baronihead shippers would be protected from any and all harm

What a crazy world we live in 😌

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putin is having his purge. Notice by contrast, United States never arrested or convicted any suspicious military commanding officers despite that everyone knew that Michael Flynn and his brother Charles Flynn were likely complicit for Jan 6 insurrection?

Even if there is mounting evidence, it would’ve been a protracted process to investigate and then be charged for a lengthy trial. Just look at trump now going around saying he’s gonna run for 2024.

there’s no guaranteed due process under putin. Where’s impeachment by duma? Trump was at least impeached twice. Prigozhin is essentially a whistleblower saying that there’s no justification to invade ukraine. And then when prigozhin demanded for more ammunition, putin ignored him.

Instead of impeachment, generals are getting arrested. Putin gets to do house cleaning without proof.

Are the excon wagners the only people in Russia with any courage?

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Canada's double standard exposed

Kudos to journalist Dimitri Lascaris 👏🏼👏🏼

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#genocide apologism