An exterior view of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands, March 31, 2021.
The high-profile ICC in the city of The Hague handles sensitive information about war crimes cases.
In March, the court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on suspicion of illegally deporting children from Ukraine.
Prosecutors are also conducting investigations of alleged war crimes in Ukraine, Sudan and Afghanistan, among others.
Mylene Dimitri, defending Yekatom, told Reuters she was exchanging information via USB flash drives and paper binders, delivering information personally from office-to-office.
Persons:
de, Vladimir Putin, Geert, Jan Knoops, Patrice, Edouard Ngaissona, Alfred Yekatom, Mylene Dimitri, Yekatom, videolink, Stephanie van den Berg, Anthony Deutsch, Toby Sterling, Barbara Lewis, Andrew Cawthorne
Organizations:
Criminal Court, REUTERS, ICC, Central African, Kremlin, Prosecutors, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Hague, Netherlands, The Hague, Central African Republic, Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan