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[–] manucode@infosec.pub 201 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The CNN headline is a bit misleading. It's not the International Criminal Court as a whole that is seeking these arrest warrants but the ICC's chief prosecutor Karim Khan. The judges have yet to decide on these warrants.

[Side note: This is the same kind of lazy journalism that uses terms like EU chief or EU leader interchangeably for the President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen) and the President of the European Council (Charles Michel). If this was limited to a short headline, I could excuse it, but CNN continues with the same wording in the first sentence of the article: "The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for ..." which is absolutely unnecessary, even if CNN clarifies things later.]

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 75 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've always considered CNN to stand for Clearly Not News

Edit - the BBC headline starts "ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of..."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ggpe3qj6wo

[–] solo 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, this is very interesting. How is it he took this initiative? Actually, is it an initiative or part of the process?

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's part of the process. Now the request is before judges who will decide whether or not to issue the arrest warrants. For reference, when an ICC prosecutor asked for an arrest warrant for Vladmir Putin, it took a couple months for the judges to decide and then issue the warrant.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the process is slow but thorough (as it should be since these are among the most difficult cases in existence).

[–] solo 5 points 5 months ago

Thank you, good to know!

[–] magnetosphere@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know nothing about the process. How can a decision take months? What else are they doing? Are there counter arguments or something happening in the meantime?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

The judges have to read and verify the documents they got for this case. This takes some weeks to months.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And good thing Putin is rotting in a prison cell right now.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

hopefully his helicopter will crash into the foggy mountains or his train to china/north korea will derail

[–] DPRK_Official@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Trains do not derail in North Korea. It is forbidden.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Modern Journalism, and I use that term loosely, at work. Once you notice these kinds of misleading to incorrect headlines you can't stop seeing them.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I think that's a distinction without a difference. How would the ICC seek an arrest warrant if not by having the chief prosecutor submit one? If the court had approved it, the title would be "arrest warrant issued by ICC".