Syria - Security Council asked to refer crimes against journalists in Syria and Iraq to ICC

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria and Iraq, where war crimes have been committed against journalists, to the International Criminal Court. RSF made this request in a letter on 16 April to the office of Lithuania's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, who will assume the Security Council's Presidency in May, and in a letter today to the UN secretary-general. “Two US journalists, James Foley and Steven (...)

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