The role of the Prosecutor in criminal proceedings in the ICC
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
