ACTIONSA says the South African government has a legal obligation to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin should he visit South Africa for the 15th BRICS summit in August.
Putin is scheduled to attend the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in Pretoria in August, and International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has confirmed that he was invited.
Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest for Putin for alleged war crimes after evidence was found that the Russian president was complicit in illegally deporting children from Ukraine to Russia.
The ICC said in a media statement that Putin “is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of (children) and that of unlawful transfer of (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
The move was dismissed by Moscow but welcomed by Ukraine as a major breakthrough.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said his party
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