The United Nations-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) said that it “strongly rejects” the sanctions imposed on four of its judges by the U.S. government Wednesday, calling for the Trump administration to reverse course.
“These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates under the mandate from 125 States Parties from all regions,” the ICC statement said. “They constitute also an affront against the Court’s States Parties, the rules-based international order and, above all, millions of innocent victims across the world.”
The ICC added that it will stand “firmly behind its personnel and victims of unimaginable atrocities” and will continue to support “its mandate, undeterred, in strict accordance with its legal framework as adopted by the States Parties and without regard to any restriction, pressure or threat.”…