Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza (born 15 July 1955[1] in Trujillo[2]) is a Peruvian jurist and judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Ibañez Carranza is the first Peruvian judge at the ICC.[3][4] Before being elected as a judge at the ICC, she was a prosecutor and professor in Peru.
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In 1974 she began to study law at the National University of Trujillo from where she graduated with a BSc in 1982.[1] Between April 1996 she followed up in her studies at the university Inca Garcilaso de la Vega from where in 1998 she obtained a MSc in Criminal law and in 2007 a Doctorate in law[1]
In 1996 she became a lecturer in criminal law at the National University Federico Villareal, a position she kept until 2004.[1] In 2004 she was promoted to Professor at the same university in Lima.[1] Additionally, she is the author of several academic papers and books.[1]
Between 1982 and 1984 she was an assistant prosecutor in Lima.[1] Between 1984 and 1988 she served as a deputy provincial prosecutor and from 1988 to 1989, as the provincial prosecutor for the province of Lima in the 4th provincial prosecutor's office.[1] In 1992 she assumed as the provincial prosecutor for Trujillo, which she stayed until January 1993.[1] Onwards she practiced as a lawyer until 1999.[1] Between 2004 and 2017 she was the chief prosecutor for Lima and the prosecutor at the 2nd National Criminal Court that focused on human rights violations,[1] coming to prominence while prosecuting Abimael Guzmán, the leader of Sendero Luminoso, sentenced to life in prison.[5] Between 2005 and 2007 she was involved in over 500 investigations also of human rights violation during the Peruvian internal armed conflict.[6] Other prominent trials in which she was the prosecutor where El Fronton[4][7] a case against members of the Peruvian Navy accused of extrajudicial killings on a prison on an island[6] or the one against Victor Polay, the leader of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).[1]
She was also the delegate representing Peru before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (CIDH), the Inter-American Commission against Terrorism (CICTE) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (ACNUDH).[8]
She was elected to the International Criminal Court in December 2017[9] and took up the position in 2018.[10] She is a member of the appeals court in the trial of Laurent Gbagbo, the ex-President of the Ivory Coast who was acquitted by the ICC and the former Congolese rebel Bosco Ntaganda, sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.[10] Since March 2021, she is the vice president of the ICC.[10] In December 2022, she presided over the chamber that confirmed the conviction of Dominic Ongwen, a former leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from Uganda to 25 years imprisonment for the crimes of murder, rape and forced pregnancy.[11]
In September 2023, Russia issued an arrest warrant for Ibañez Carranza on unspecified charges, in retaliation for the ICC having issued a warrant against President Vladimir Putin.[12]
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