Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza

Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza (born 15 July 1955 in Trujillo ) is a Peruvian jurist and judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Ibañez Carranza is the first Peruvian judge at the ICC. Before being elected as a judge at the ICC, she was a prosecutor and professor in Peru.

Education In 1974 she began to study law at the National University of Trujillo from where she graduated with a BSc in 1982. Between 2005 and 2007 she was involved in over 500 investigations also of human rights violation during the Peruvian internal armed conflict. Other prominent trials in which she was the prosecutor where El Fronton a case against members of the Peruvian Navy accused of extrajudicial killings on a prison on an island

Judge at the International Criminal Court She was elected to the International Criminal Court in December 2017 and took up the position in 2018. She was assigned to the Appeals chamber of the Court, dealing with cases 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. She held that position for a fixed term of 3 years until March 2024 when she was succeeded by her Italian colleague, Rosario Salvatore Aitala. 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.

International Transgressions

Russia's prosecution 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.

US Sanctions On June 5, 2025, judge Ibañez Carranza was sanctioned alongside her 3 colleagues, including fellow appeals judge Solomy Bossa, for authorizing an ICC-led investigation into the situation in Afghanistan, including into US and NATO personnel, which the US had consistently and vehemently opposed.