This is the International Criminal Court Trial Chamber's own judgment and sentence in Prosecutor versus Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, delivered in 2016 following Al Mahdi's guilty plea for directing attacks on religious and historic buildings in Timbuktu, Mali, including several Sufi shrines. As the court's own official ruling, it is the direct and authoritative record of the specific criminal charge, the facts the court found proven and the sentence imposed. Its limit is that it is a legal judgment addressed to establishing individual criminal responsibility under the Rome Statute, not a work of religious studies or history describing the shrines' significance or the broader Sufi tradition they belonged to, so it is the right source for the legal facts of the case and not for an account of the destroyed heritage's religious meaning.
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The International Criminal Court Trial Chamber's own judgment and sentence in Prosecutor versus Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, delivered in 2016, the top tier reflecting that it is the court's own official ruling, the direct and authoritative record of the charge, the facts found proven and the sentence imposed for directing attacks on Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, notwithstanding that it is a legal judgment addressed to individual criminal responsibility rather than a work of religious studies describing the destroyed heritage's religious meaning. NotesThe International Criminal Court Trial Chamber's own judgment and sentence in Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi (2016); the court's ruling on the criminal charge before it, not a historical or religious-studies account of the heritage site at issue.
Citation
AuthorInternational Criminal Court, Trial Chamber VIII
PublisherInternational Criminal Court
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://www.icc-cpi.int/mali/al-mahdi
Source TypeCase law
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This source names Mali directly: "and historic buildings in Timbuktu, Mali, including several Sufi shrines."
Source Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, Judgment and Sentence, ICC-01/12-01/15International Criminal Court, Trial Chamber VIII
Rome, Cities This source names Rome directly: "criminal responsibility under the Rome Statute, not a work of religious studies or history describing the shrines' significance or the broader Sufi tradition they belonged to, so it is the right..."
Source Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, Judgment and Sentence, ICC-01/12-01/15International Criminal Court, Trial Chamber VIII
This source names Timbuktu directly: "on religious and historic buildings in Timbuktu, Mali, including several Sufi shrines."
Source Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, Judgment and Sentence, ICC-01/12-01/15International Criminal Court, Trial Chamber VIII
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Sacred Sites, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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