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Much of the session was spent answering lawmakers’ questions about the Pentagon’s resistance to cooperating with the International Criminal Court.

The news was shared Wednesday by Beth Van Schaack, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, during a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Defense Department is blocking efforts by the U.S. government to share evidence of possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal…

Lithuanian Vice-Minister of Justice writes about a proposed 'hybrid' tribunal for Russian aggression against Ukraine compared to the fully international model supported by Ukraine, Lithuania and other States.

U.S. lawmakers and a top U.S. diplomat expressed support on May 31 for the creation of an international tribunal separate from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try crimes of aggression that have taken place during the war in Ukraine.

Senators rebuked the Department of Defense for holding up assistance to international efforts aimed at investigating and trying war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.

A State Department official told a Senate committee that teh Pentagon is not cooperating with an ICC probe into alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Two New York lawyers, husband and wife Arthur Arcadian and Ilona Dzhamgarova, have been sentenced to six months and two years in prison, respectively, for assisting asylum seekers, mostly from the former Soviet Union, to prepare false affidavits and coaching their clients to lie under oath.