South Africa Presents Bill to Quit International Criminal Court

 South Africa Presents Bill to Quit International Criminal Court

 

South Africa's justice minister presented a bill in parliament on Thursday to repeal the country's membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — which the government has said clashes with diplomatic immunity laws. Pretoria last year announced its intention to leave after the ICC critici

zed it for disregarding an order to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a visit to South Africa. Bashir faces charges of orchestrating genocide and war crimes — charges...