No one is above the law

Most important cases against heads of state & othert most responsible perpetrators of core international crimes

Afghanistan

Hibatullah Akhundzada
(supreme leader Taliban)

Fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued by the prosecutor of the ICC on July 8, 2025.

Argentina

Jorge Rafael Videla
(president)

Life imprisonment

Jorge Rafael Videla
(President)

Life imprisonment

Reynaldo Bignone
(president)

Life imprisonment

Bosnia and hercegovina

Radovan Karadzic

(president Republika Srpska)

Life imprisonment

Ratko Mladic
(commander army of Republika Srpska)

Life imprisonment

cambodia

Nuon Chea

Life imprisonment

Khieu Samphan
(president)

Life imprisonment

Chad

Hissène habré

(president)

Life imprisonment

Chile

Augusto Pinochet

(president)

Arrested in 1998 in the UK, released on medical grounds in 2000 without standing trial. Deceased in 2006.

East-Germany

Erich Honecker
(General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)

Put on trial in november 1992, but the proceedings ended in January 1993 due to his deteriorating health. 

Equatoriaal-Guinea

Francisco Macías Nguema
(president)

Executed

Guatamala

Efraín Ríos Montt
(military ruler)

80 years imprisonment

Iraq

Saddam Hussein
(president)

Executed

Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu
(Prime minister)

Fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued by the prosecutor of the ICC on November 21, 2024.

Ivory coast

Laurent Gbagbo
(president)

Acquitted by the icc in 2019

Japan

Hideki Tojo
(Prime minister)

executed

Kenya

Uhuru Kenyatta
(President)

Charges withdrawn in 2014 due to Charges withdrawn due to insufficient evidence.

Kosovo

Hashim Thaci

(Prime minister / president)

Currently on trial at the Kosovo Tribunal

Liberia

Charles Taylor

(president)

Life imprisonment

Myanmar

Min Aung Hlaing
(commander in chief / president)

Fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued by the prosecutor of the ICC on November 27, 2024. 

An additional arrest warrant was issued by the prosecutor of Argentina on February 14, 2025.

Peru

Alberto Fujimori
(president)

25 years imprisonment

Philippines

Rodrigo Roa Duterte
(president)

Currently on trial at the ICC

Romania

Nicolae Ceausescu
(president)

Executed

Russia

Vladimir Putin
(president)

Fugitive. An arrest warrant was issed by the prosecutor of the ICC on march 17, 2023.

Rwanda

Jean Kambanda

(prime minister)

Life imprisonment

Serbia

Slobodan Milosevic

(president)

Deceased while standing trial

Sudan

Omar Al-Bashir

(president)

Fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued by the prosecutor of the ICC on March 4, 2009. 

A second arrest warrant was issued on July 12, 2010.  

Suriname

Desi Bouterse
(president)

20 years imprisonment

Syria

Bashar Al-Assad
(president)

Fugitive. 

uganda

Joseph Kony

(leader of the Lord's Resistance Army)

Fugitive. An arrest warrant was issued by the prosecutor of the ICC on July 8, 2005. It was amended on september 27, 2005.

Uruguay

Juan María Bordaberry

sENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IMPRISONMENT

Juan María Bordaberry
(president) 

30 years imprisonment

Gregorio Álvarez
(president)

25 years imprisonment