About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.
As a postscript to my previous post on the arrest of Ahmad Al Mahdi Al Faqi at the weekend, his arrest warrant was made public today and can be found here with redactions. Mr Al Faqi’s first appearance before the Court is scheduled for 11am on Wednesday 30th September 2015.