The ICC convicted a Janjaweed commander of Darfur war crimes for the first time, 21 years after the crimes, because Sudan never arrested him.
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On October 6, 2025, ICC judges found Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman ("Ali Kushayb"), a senior Janjaweed militia commander, guilty on 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in West Darfur between August 2003 and April 2004, the first conviction to come out of the Court's Darfur investigation. On December 9, 2025, Trial Chamber I sentenced him to 20 years in prison. The ICC issued its arrest warrant in 2007, but he remained at large for years, fleeing to the Central African Republic in 2020 before surrendering to the Court in June 2020, according to Human Rights Watch and Al Jazeera; Sudan's authorities never arrested or extradited him.
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to 20 years of imprisonment after finding him guilty of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity
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