On September 27, 2016, in The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi [3], Trial Chamber VIII of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Al Mahdi guilty of war crimes based his destruction of cultural property in Timbuktu, Mali. According to the press release [4], the Chamber sentenced Al Mahdi to nine years' imprisonment after he “admitted guilt to the war crime consisting in attacking 10 historic and religious monuments.” The Chamber considered a number of factors in determining the sentence, particularly that “all the sites but one were UNESCO World Heritage sites.” According to reports [5], this was the first prosecution by the ICC for the destruction of cultural property.