South Africa will have the opportunity this summer to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin — and the court’s top prosecutor told MPs on Thursday he’s confident the Commonwealth country “will do the right thing.”
Karim Khan appeared before the Canadian House of Commons foreign affairs committee a few hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to ICC judges at The Hague in the Netherlands, where he said he was confident Putin would be convicted of war crimes.
Zelenskyy urged the global community to hold Putin accountable and told the ICC judges that Russia’s leader “deserves to