Iran Press/Iran news: The ICICL filed a communique on July 1 for the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor under Article 15 of the Rome Statute to prosecute the Saudi-led coalition for its ongoing war crimes since 2015 against the Yemeni people.
The communique is submitted in support for Yemeni victims, summoning up the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole to justice, and fighting against impunity which Yemen has been suffering from for a long time, Mehr News Agency reported.
The ICICL has incorporated legal documents provided by UN bodies, independent NGOs and the media, in order to convince the Prosecutor to initiate preliminary investigations on the case in question.
Attacking on civilians as well as the personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance missions; attacking on hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected; intentionally directing attacks against protected objects, including buildings dedicated to education are of the Saudis' war crimes in Yemen, brought in the communication to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.
Based on the publicly available documents by international NGOs or UN bodies, the Saudi-led coalition attacks have in many occasions been in violation of international law as well as international humanitarian law.
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The US-backed Saudi regime and a number of its allies including the United Arab Emirates and Sudan launched a war against Yemen in March 2015, ostensibly to restore fugitive president Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi to power. The aggression has already led to the death and injury of tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians.
The brutal Saudi-led airstrikes are continuing, with many Yemeni hospitals, schools, and residential buildings being targeted.
Yet the Saudi regime and its allies have not reached their objectives in the impoverished country due to the resistance of the Yemeni people.
Yemen not Party to ICC, UK and Jordan addressed
As Yemen is not a State Party to the ICC, the Court lacks territorial jurisdiction to engage in the situation of Yemen. Yet, the communique has relied on ICC's personal jurisdiction with regard to Jordanian, and to some extent British, nationals.
Jordan is one of the members of the Saudi-led Coalition, and the UK has been supplying the Coalition with weaponry and intelligence information, and as the communication, argues, officials of these States are responsible, whether as the principal or accessory, for the crimes committed by the Coalition in Yemen.
International Criminal Court (ICC), established in 2002 by the Rome Statute, to fight impunity around the world by prosecuting individuals responsible for the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. To date, there are 122 States who are parties to the Rome Statute. 104/215
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