Al Bashir flies out of South Africa despite court order

Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, ignored a court order in South Africa and flew out of the country without drama.

President Omar al-Bashir flew out of Johannesburgdespite his plane being moved to a military base, reports the BBC. Bashir had been attending the African Union summit when a South African court issued an order to prevent him from leaving the nation.

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The court cited the ICC’s accusations of Bashir committing war crimes as cause to prevent him from leaving. According to Al-Jazeera, officials from the Sudanese government had stated that President Bashir would return to Khartoum on Monday, June 15, 2015, regardless of the what the court order said.