Haibatullah Akhundzada
Name: Haibatullah Akhundzada
Position: Supreme Leader of the Taliban
Date and place of birth: born in 1959 or 1960 or 1961 in Sperwan in the Kandahar province (Afghanistan)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Afghanistan
Current place of residence: Afghanistan
Status: application for an international arrest warrant submitted to ICC judges on 23 January 2025
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague
Charges: crime against humanity of gender-related persecution against Afghan girls and women. The charges include murder, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance and other inhumane acts, allegedly committed from August 2021, when the Taliban regained power.
Bashar al-Assad
Name: Bashar al-Assad
Position: former President of Syria
Date and place of birth: born on 11 September 1965 in Damascus, Syria
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Syria
Current place of residence: the Russian Federation (since December 2024)
Status: fugitive – an international arrest warrant issued by France on 20 January 2025
Jurisdiction: Judicial Court of Paris, France (universal jurisdiction)
Charges :
- complicity in war crimes for the bombing of civilians in 2017 in Daraa, south-west Syria ;
- complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes for chemical attacks using sarin gas in Eastern Ghouta on 21 August 2013, which allegedly killed more than 1,000 people.
Omar al-Bashir
Name: Omar al-Bashir
Position: former President of Sudan
Date and place of birth: born on 1 January 1944 in Hosh Bannaga (Sudan)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Sudan
Current place of residence: Sudan (Merowe prison)
Status: in prison - international arrest warrants issued on 4 March 2009 and 12 July 2010
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague
Charges :
- war crimes - looting and attacks against civilians - and crimes against humanity - for murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape ;
- genocide by killing, by causing serious bodily or mental harm, by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
The alleged crimes were perpetrated in the State of Darfur, after the April 2003 attack on El Fashir airport and up until 14 July 2008.
François Bozizé
Name: François Bozizé Yangouvonda
Position: former President of the Central African Republic (CAR)
Date and place of birth: born on 14 October 1946 in Mouila (Gabon)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Central African Republic (CAR)
Place of residence: Guinea Bissau (since March 2023)
Jurisdiction: Special Criminal Court (CPS), Bangui
Status: fugitive – an international arrest warrant issued on 27 February 2024
Charges: crimes against humanity for massacres perpetrated between February 2009 and March 2013 by his presidential guard and other security services; as well as for “murder”, “enforced disappearance”, “torture”, “rape” and “other inhumane acts” in the Bossembélé civilian prison and military camp in the centre of the country.
Sheikh Hasina
Name: Sheikh Hasina
Position: former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Date and place of birth: born on 28 September 1947 in Tungipara (India)
Country where her alleged crimes were committed: Bangladesh
Current place of residence: India
Status: fugitive – international arrest warrants issued on 17 October 2024, 6 January 2025
Jurisdiction: International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICT-BD), Dhaka
Charges: genocide and crimes against humanity, including murder and enforced disappearances, perpetrated during the repression of mass demonstrations against her rule between July and August 2024, in which more than 1,000 people were allegedly killed.
Min Aung Hlaing
Name: Min Aung Hlaing
Position: General, Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese Army and de facto leader of Myanmar
Date and place of birth: born on 3 July 1956 in Minbu (Burma)
Countries where his alleged crimes were committed: Myanmar and Bangladesh
Current place of residence: Myanmar
Status: application for an international arrest warrant submitted to the ICC judges on 27 November 2024
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague
Charges: crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution committed against the Rohingya minority, which occurred in 2016 and 2017 and during the exodus of more than one million Rohingyas from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Yahya Jammeh
Name: Yahya Jammeh
Position: former President of the Gambia
Date and place of birth: born on 25 May 1965 in Kanilai (Gambia)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Gambia
Current place of residence: Equatorial Guinea (since January 2017)
Status: in exile - no known international arrest warrant
Jurisdiction: Special Tribunal for The Gambia (under creation)
Alleged crimes: crimes and human rights violations during his presidency, between July 1994 and January 2017, including the execution of at least 240 people, enforced disappearances, rape, torture, arbitrary detention and administration of a false AIDS treatment.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Name: Mengistu Haile Mariam
Position: former President of Ethiopia
Date and place of birth: born on 21 May 1937 in Jimma (Ethiopia)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Ethiopia
Current residence: Zimbabwe
Status: fugitive - sentenced on 28 December 2006 in absentia to life imprisonment
Jurisdiction: Federal High Court, Addis Ababa
Sentence : convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity during his years in power, notably during the “Red Terror” (purges of opposition groups and civilians) between 1977 and 1978, including conspiracy to destroy a political group and kill individuals by setting up commandos with the aim of “decimating” them. According to the Court, more than 2,000 people were killed, including 60 senior officials, ministers and members of the royal family, and more than 2,400 people tortured. The Ethiopian criminal code includes political groups in the concept of genocide.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Name: Benjamin Netanyahu
Position: Prime Minister of Israel
Date and place of birth: born on 21 October 1949 in Tel Aviv (Israel)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Palestine
Current place of residence: Israel
Status: fugitive – an international arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague
Charges :
- war crimes of deliberately starving a civilian population and deliberately directing an attack against it ;
- crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts, from 8 October 2023 on.
Vladimir Putin
Name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Position: President of the Russian Federation
Date and place of birth: born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad (USSR)
Country where his alleged crimes were committed: Ukraine
Current place of residence: the Russian Federation
Status: fugitive – an international arrest warrant issued on 17 March 2023
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court (ICC), The Hague
Charges: war crimes of illegal deportation of population (children) and their illegal transfer from Ukraine to the Russian Federation, from at least 24 February 2022 on.
