The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, said on Saturday that South Africa must do the "right thing" and follow international law if Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the BRICS summit in Johannesburg next month.
This came in a statement made by Khan today to the American news channel "CNN", which indicated that the International Criminal Court had earlier issued an arrest warrant against Russia's President Putin and the Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova Belova, last March, for the "war crime of illegal deportation of children.
The US channel explained that "since the ICC does not conduct trials in absentia, it will have to either extradite Putin by Moscow or arrest him outside Russia," as she put it.
The court indicated that its law stipulates that all state parties have a legal obligation to cooperate with the court, which means that they are obligated to implement arrest warrants.
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