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International Criminal Court (Earth-616)

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Quote1 Well. Good thing there's an International Criminal Court standing by to handle violations of human rights just like-- oh, wait… Quote2
—James Rhodes[3]

The International Criminal Court, with seat in The Hague, Netherlands, is an international organization with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. In the past, they have tried James Rhodes, Anthony Stark and White Wolf, and expressed interest in trying the Red Skull.

History

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for international crimes including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, dealing with breaches of the Geneva Convention. The ICC was also to ensure that violations of human rights are weot unpunished.[3] Several countries who signed and ratified the Rome Treaty held membership in the International Crime Court,[2] including Burunda, Costa Salvador,[1] Greece, Japan, Morvania, Switzerland,[2] Terra Verde[1] and possibly many more including Netherlands.[3][4] Vorozheika signed and ratified the Treaty, thou it formally withdrew from the ICC afterward when Ivan Druig (really the Eternal Druig) became its Prime Minister.[2]

The main headquarters of the ICC was a buiding in The Hague, Netherlands, where the accused were publicly put on trial; the media were allowed to cover and broadcast the procedures.[3][4] There were holding cells for ICC accused in The Hague, possibly in the sameself building or close it, thou the ICC also had a detention center in Scheveningen, a district of The Hague;[5] the international war crimes prison there[4] had bedrooms, laundry room, library, mess hall, recreation room, workshop, and a yard, and the walls, while secure, could be breached by superpowered armors and compromised by Polymorphic Infrared Lenses. Famously criminals like Jean-Pierre Bemba, Germain Katanga and Thomas Lubanga were kept in the Scheveningen facility.[5] Prisioners with superhuman powers who could not be safely retained there could be send to an offshore fortress two miles north-east of The Hague, with extra security.[3][6]

The ICC has been involved in several situations including superhumans. They have made no secret of their interest in trying the Red Skull for his various crimes; the Skull's enemy, Captain America (Steven Rogers), feared that in this case Red Skull would take advantage of the publicity of the trial for his own plans.[7]

In recent times, Doctor Doom was imprisoned in The Hague pending trial by the ICC for crimes against humanity, staying on cell 152,[8] until he was released with an apology.[9]

H.A.M.M.E.R. Director Norman Osborn had cyborg James Rhodes tried by the ICC[10][11] for deaths Rhodes had caused in Aqiria and Santo Marco[12] as a distraction so that the media stopped paying attention to the Bainsville Ten, instead covering the more interesting trial of a supposed terrorist and traitor.[10] Rhodes understood that it was merely a kangaroo court and tried to hasten the procedures, even if he was found guilty, because the longer his trial lasted, the more Osborn benefited. Rhodes was accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including thirty-six grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and seventeen violations of its second protocol, and kept in the offshore prison; Osborn also had Santo Marco get ready to extradite Rhodes as soon as the trial ended, so that Rhodes could face capital punishment there. Lawyer Matthew Murdock travelled to The Hague to defend Rhodes, identifying a flagrant miscarriage of justice and thirteen motions that could delay it, but Rhodes insisted that Osborn wanted this to be delayed, and instead sent Murdock back to the U.S. to deal with the Bainsville Ten. Olympian god of war Ares attended the trial, wrecking the room and threatening that anyone interfering with justice, including the judges, would be sent to Hades. Rhodes wanted to confess but the judges rejected his declaration due to his lack of lawyer and delayed the procedures one more day,[3] assigning Daniel Cetewayo as Rhodes' new lawyer.[6] Meanwhile, Rhodes' allies tried to grow a cloned body for Rhodes to transfer his consciousness to it, but Osborn stole the clone,[11][6] then claimed that the person in the offshore prison was an impersonator artifically created to spread a lethal virus, and authorized an armed attack on the ICC offshore prison; the real Rhodes, Osborn claimed, was innocent and had been pardoned.[6] During the attack, Rhodes sacrificed his life to save a child's,[6][12] then transferred his consciousness to the cloned body.[6][12][11]

An international consortium called Balance secretly stole Anthony Stark's technology and, at the request of the Russian Prime Minister,[13] destroyed the Russian town Volstok to get rid of an opposition leader there, Igor Vanko.[13] They did so using Stark's Iron Man technology, murdering at least three thousand people. Anthony Stark was accused, arrested and taken to the ICC in The Hague.[14] This was not exactly the Balance's plan, as they had expected to avoid anyone from being detected in the attack,[5] but they kept control of the situation because they bribed several ICC guards to keep an eye on Stark.[4] Stark was accused of having done this deed in exchange for two hundred fifty million dollars that the CIA found had been transferred from the Russian government to an offshore Stark Industries account. While Stark provided security footage to show his presence in Los Angeles in the moment of the attack, the accusation had NATO stallite footages that identified the armor and Stark's biosignature.[14] Stark was kept in the ICC holding cells until he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment; he was transferred to the Scheveningen detention centers while the ICC prosecutors and the attorneys negotiated where he would serve his sentence. However, Vanko's son Anton Vanko wanted to murder Stark and attacked the Schveningen facility;[5] during the chaos, Stark escaped[4] and tracked the Balance to Japan, while being tracked by Vanko. In Japan, Stark proved that the Balance was really behind the Volstok attack. The Japanese center was destroyed and Vanko and several Balance members were left for dead, but Stark obtained evidence to arrest several Balance member and sent them to the ICC. The ICC however failed to prove the implication of the Russian Prime Minister and dismissed that charge.[13]

Later, the new Captain America (Samuel Wilson) defeated White Wolf, who had used African American people as chemical weapons in an attack on Wakanda to start a civil war there. The Captain's allies prevented him from beating White Wolf to death, instead convincing him that White Wolf would face a fair trial in the ICC.[15]

Notes

  • In the real life, 123 countries are members of the ICC. Marvel Atlas confirms that 7 countries are members in ICC, not confirming whether the others are or are not.
  • Marvel Atlas #1 suggests that signatories of the Rome Treaty joined the ICC, thou they could withdrew from it later ("Although Vorozheika signed and ratified the Rome Treaty, it formally withdrew from the International Criminal Court soon after Ivan Druig's rise to power"). In the real world, the ICC is established by the Rome Statute (1998), while the Rome Treaty (1957) is related to the European Economic Community, later European Union.

Trivia

  • The ICC is not authorized to administer the death penalty to an accused.[3]

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