Rethink SA’s withdrawal from ICC, Freedom Under Law urges Jacob Zuma
The lobby group says the reflection the high court has demanded about the decision to withdraw should extend to the substance of this move
Freedom Under Law has urged President Jacob Zuma and the Department of International Relations and Co-operation, to use the Wednesday’s court ruling as an opportunity to rethink SA’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The High Court in Pretoria found the government’s decision to withdraw from the ICC to be unconstitutional and invalid. Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo ordered that the notice of withdrawal be revoked. He said: "There is prematurity and procedural irrationality in the notice to withdraw from the Rome Statute by [the] executive without parliamentary approval." In a statement on Thursday, Freedom Under Law said: "While the judgment is confined to the procedural regularity of the withdrawal notification," it believed that the reflection the court demanded should extend to the substance of the proposed step. "The constitutional imperative that SA respect‚ protect‚ promote and fulfil human rights entails that those made victim of egregious crime...
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