@mhproulx.bsky.social
Defence Counsel at the #ICC #defencematters #fairtrials. Associate Tenant @33BedfordRow. Former President @ICCBA. IHL and ICL practitioner. Canadian in The Hague.
What an amazing life indeed! I'm very sorry for your loss, Haydée 💔
12.07.2025 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On 23 June, the #UnitedNations Public Service Day, the IBA highlights the value of #ProBono work undertaken by #law professionals, and specifically that of the IBA Pro Bono Committee. The IBA recognises pro bono work as a cornerstone of access to #justice.
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Il s’agit – pour paraphraser les termes utilisés dans la Convention internationale contre la prise d’otage de 1979 – de rechercher l’obtention d’une contrepartie réelle ou supposée comme « condition explicite ou implicite » de la libération des personnes concernées."
17.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0En raison de cette politique, plusieurs ressortissants français sont toujours détenus dans les prisons iraniennes, dans des conditions indignes. (…) Cette politique d’otages est mise en place dans l’optique précise de contraindre la France à accomplir certains actes ou à s’en abstenir.
17.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Cette politique – délibérée – de prise d’otages occidentaux cible des ressortissants français voyageant ou séjournant en Iran en les accusant de diverses charges en lien avec la sécurité nationale iranienne....
17.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In a filing to #ICJ, the gvt of France takes a strong stance against State hostage-taking of innocent private citizens, in particular @libertepourcecile.bsky.social. State-sponsored arbitrary detention cases are too frequent. Good to see France lead the way+fight back against a despicable practice.
17.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
www.straitstimes.com/world/europe... The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has stepped down temporarily as an investigation by United Nations investigators into alleged sexual misconduct by him nears its end, court sources told Reuters on Friday.
16.05.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I'm not sure why you and the other account keep tagging me in ICC related posts, like I can do something about it. I am not the ICC prosecutor. I'm just a defence counsel.
23.04.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In French, the verb "préciser " means to specify. So I'm guessing this is just a mistake based on languages "false friends"...
21.04.2025 10:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Our client Robert Pether has been arbitrarily detained in Iraq since 2021. This is a welcomed statement by @simonharrisireland.bsky.social. #FreeRobertPether @dijkstal.bsky.social
18.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today marks 4 years since Australian citizen and Irish resident, Robert Pether has been wrongfully imprisoned in Iraq.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for his immediate release.
The Australian Gov must #FreeRobertPether now.
www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...
Australians will go to the polls on 3 May 2025 to vote for their next government. Who will become the next Australian Prime Minister?
Who will bring home Australian citizen Robert Pether who has been wrongfully imprisoned in #Iraq since 7 April 2021? #FreeRobertPether
Today I had the pleasure of speaking to students of the Amsterdam Centre for Criminal Justice @uvalawschool.bsky.social about the (many) challenges of representing accused persons before the #ICC. Thanks for the invite! #defence #fairtrial
14.04.2025 16:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A little delegation from @33bedfordrow.bsky.social International attending this year’s International Bar Association War Crimes Committee conference in The Hague. Lovely to catch up with colleagues and friends along with @mhproulx.bsky.social and Aqsa Hussain.
#IBAWCC #33BRIntl
The election has just been called for April 28.
If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP:
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Urgent Letter to #UN OHCHR to save the lives of political prisoners Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani in #Iran. Their lawyers have filed an emergency motion for a retrial but in a dictatorship this may not succeed. #SaveMehdiHassani #SaveBehrouzEhsani #StopExecutionsInIran iran1988.org/urgent-lette...
03.02.2025 07:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
OMG Molly, that's epic.
24.12.2024 06:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0At least, the recordings for the whole week are now available on Youtube, and there was only minimal recourse to private session. Here is my small contribution to the pleadings: youtu.be/D8RpktaBU2o?...
13.12.2024 08:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yesterday, the closing arguments in the Yekatom & Ngaïssona case ended. The pleadings were barely followed in the media, the public gallery was mostly empty, and the ICC's live feed was malfunctioning. What a sad state of affairs for the publicity of proceedings. #justice #CAR #ICC
13.12.2024 08:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Text of report: "Dutch PM says Netanyahu could visit Netherlands without being arrested Dick Schoof says there may be options for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the Netherlands without being arrested despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him. “The most important thing is that we have obligations that come from the treaty and that we comply to them,” the Dutch prime minister said. “In light of that, we would have to see how we act when the prime minister of Israel were to come to the Netherlands. There are possible scenarios, also within international law, in which he would be able to come to the Netherlands without being arrested.” Schoof did not elaborate on the possible scenarios. The ICC issued arrest warrants last week for Netanyahu and his former defence chief Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza war."
Al Jazeera reports that the Dutch PM left open the possibility of #Netanyahu NOT being arrested if he visited NL. After #France, now it's the #Netherlands questioning its own obligations. #Israel #ArrestWarant #ICC #Nederland #Schoof www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
30.11.2024 06:35 — 👍 34 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 10Hi Thijs, nice to see you here!
26.11.2024 12:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here's a preview...
25.11.2024 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After nearly 4 years of trial, here is the public redacted version of the Ngaissona defence closing brief, in which we request that our client be acquitted of all charges brought against him:
www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul... #CAR #ICC #fairtrial
Thank you for covering the trial @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social ! Stay tuned, the Ngaissona closing brief should be made public tomorrow.
24.11.2024 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚡️ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of #Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and ISSUES warrants of arrest for Benjamin #Netanyahu and Yoav #Gallant.
⚡️Judges ISSUED warrants of arrest for BOTH: Netanyahu and Gallant are now officially ICC SUSPECTS. Tremendous!
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
Well, as you know, I was once co-counsel on Mr Al Hassan's team, so I'll abstain to give my own views on this...
20.11.2024 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Breaking news: Trial Chamber IX of the ICC sentences Al Hassan to 10 years' imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Mali in 2012-2013.
20.11.2024 13:29 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1Please do keep us posted. I share your concern for Gromit. 💔
17.11.2024 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📣 If you’re looking to rebuild your digital community of those working in (or adjacent to!) international criminal law, check out this helpful starter pack by @santiagovargasn.bsky.social:
14.11.2024 23:42 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
