The ICC Arrest Warrant against Vladimir Putin and the Obligation to Arrest an Incumbent Head of State: Does Immunity Mean Impunity?

By Revaz Tkemaladze, LLM, Ph.D. Candidate at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The question of immunities before the International Criminal Court (‘the ICC’) has revived with the issuance of the arrest warrant against the acting Head of State … Continue reading The ICC Arrest Warrant against Vladimir Putin and the Obligation to Arrest an Incumbent Head of State: Does Immunity Mean Impunity?