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On the second day of proceedings, Israel defends itself in The Hague, Netherlands, regarding alleged violations of its obligations under international law in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
2024-01-12

A two-day public hearing begins at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, regarding alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention and international law in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
2024-01-11

The International Criminal Court opens a field office in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of its war crimes investigations, becoming the largest ICC office outside of its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.
2023-09-14

The Netherlands expels two Russian diplomats based in The Hague, who it accuses of being part of a Foreign Intelligence Service-led "espionage network" targeting the high-tech sector. Russia describes the Netherlander accusations as "unfounded", and says that the expulsion of its citizens was "provocative".
2020-12-10

The Netherlands withdraw their ambassador in Ankara and say that they will not accept a new Turkish ambassador in The Hague. Dutch foreign minister Halbe Zijlstra says, "We have not agreed on how to normalise ties."
2018-02-5

The presiding judge Šaban Maksumić of the Sarajevo, Bosnian war crimes court acquits former Bosnian military officer Naser Orić of the charge of killing three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war during the Bosnian War. In July 2008, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands acquitted Orić for failing to prevent the deaths of five Bosnian Serb detainees and the mistreatment of eleven other detainees from late 1992 to early 1993.
2017-10-9

The war crime convictions of Momčilo Perišić are overturned by a war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The Serbian general had been convicted and sentenced in 2011 for atrocities perpetrated both during wars in Croatia and Bosnia.
2013-02-28

The trial of former Bosnian Serb Army Colonel General Ratko Mladić starts in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands.
2012-05-16

Serbia's war crimes court rejects an appeal from former Bosnian Serb Colonel General Ratko Mladić against a transfer to a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face genocide charges.
2011-05-31

First liberal cabinet in the Netherlands since 1918, led by Mark Rutte, is sworn in in The Hague.
2010-10-14