The role of the Prosecutor in criminal proceedings in the ICC

  • Dr.Baraa Munther Kamal
  • Raad Saadoun Mahmoud

Abstract

      At the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries for the Establishment of the International Criminal Court, held in Rome in 1998, the international community agrees to establish a permanent judicial body to punish the perpetrators of serious crimes and to close the impunity gap.
      This court consisted of (18) judges, prosecutors, registrars and people, just as we see it in the domestic courts, the organ responsible for prosecuting offenders, the Office of the Prosecutor General, and the system has blended the basis between the inquisitorial and accusatory system, so the prosecutor must if he intends to move the case proprio motu, Obtaining the approval of the Pre-Trial Chamber.
     This is a look at that organ, the procedural system espoused by the Statute, and the Prosecutor's role in providing evidence at the trigger and trial stages. V

Published
May 11, 2018
How to Cite
MUNTHER KAMAL, Dr.Baraa; MAHMOUD, Raad Saadoun. The role of the Prosecutor in criminal proceedings in the ICC. Tikrit University Journal for Rights - مجلة جامعة تكريت للحقوق, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, p. 1-34, may 2018. ISSN 2663-8983. Available at: <http://tujr.tu.edu.iq/index.php/t/article/view/66>. Date accessed: 27 nov. 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/t.v2i1.66.