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ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums

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Having pleaded guilty on 22 August 2016, Al Mahdi was found guilty by Trial Chamber VIII on 27 September 2016 as a co-perpetrator of the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against historic monuments and buildings dedicated to religion — nine mausoleums and one mosque in Timbuktu — and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. It was the first ICC prosecution centred on cultural destruction. The sentence was reduced by two years on 25 November 2021. The case converts 'heritage of humanity' from rhetoric into a chargeable offence with a named defendant.

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  2. Having pleaded guilty on 22 August 2016, Al Mahdi was found guilty by Trial Chamber VIII on 27 September 2016 as a co-perpetrator of the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against historic monuments and buildings dedicated to religion — nine mausoleums and one mosque in Timbuktu — and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. It was the first ICC prosecution centred on cultural destruction. The sentence was reduced by two years on 25 November 2021. The case converts 'heritage of humanity' from rhetoric into a chargeable offence with a named defendant.
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  4. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
  5. Timbuktu
  6. ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums
  7. Connections
  8. Timbuktu
  9. Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972)
  10. List of World Heritage in Danger
  11. Fourteen of Timbuktu's sixteen inscribed mausoleums destroyed
  12. ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums
  13. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
  14. Site of Palmyra
  15. Outstanding Universal Value and the ten selection criteria
  16. List of World Heritage in Danger
  17. World Heritage Committee
  18. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
  19. UNESCO General Conference adopts the World Heritage Convention
  20. The Convention enters into force
  21. ICC convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the destruction of Timbuktu's mausoleums
  22. Evidence
  23. On 27 September 2016 Trial Chamber VIII found Al Mahdi guilty as a co-perpetrator of the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against historic monuments and buildings dedicated to religion — nine mausoleums and one mosque in Timbuktu, attacked between around 30 June and 11 July 2012 — and sentenced him to nine years' imprisonment; the sentence was reduced by two years on 25 November 2021. It was the first ICC case centred on the destruction of cultural heritage.
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