United Nations rights chief demands U.S. withdraw sanctions on ICC judges

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for the punctual reconsideration and withdrawal of these latest measures. File | Photo Credit: Reuters

The United Nations quality rights main connected Friday (June 6, 2025) demanded that the United States assistance sanctions it imposed connected 4 International Criminal Court judges, saying they were contrary to the regularisation of law.

“I americium profoundly disturbed by the determination of the Government of the United States of America to authorisation judges of the International Criminal Court,” Volker Turk said successful a statement.

“I telephone for the punctual reconsideration and withdrawal of these latest measures,” helium said.

“Attacks against judges for show of their judicial functions, astatine nationalist oregon planetary levels, tally straight antagonistic to respect for the regularisation of instrumentality and the adjacent extortion of the instrumentality — values for which the U.S. has agelong stood. Such attacks are profoundly corrosive of bully governance and the owed medication of justice,” helium said. The U.S. connected Thursday (June 5, 2025) imposed sanctions connected 4 ICC judges.

Two of the targeted judges, Beti Hohler of Slovenia and Reine Alapini-Gansou of Benin, took portion successful proceedings that led to an apprehension warrant issued past November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The 2 different judges, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza of Peru and Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, were portion of the tribunal proceedings that led to the authorisation of an probe into allegations that U.S. forces committed warfare crimes during the warfare successful Afghanistan.

Published - June 06, 2025 11:03 p.m. IST