[Global Network Report] According to AFP, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volk Turke urged the United States to lift the sanctions imposed on four International Criminal Court judges on the 6th local time.
Valke Turk Data picture Source: Foreign media
"I call for immediate reconsideration and revocation of these latest measures," Volke Turk said in a statement to the media, "(whether it is) attacks on judges for performing judicial duties as a national or international level, which is contrary to respecting the principle of equal protection of the law and the principle of equal protection of the law."
The U.S. government announced on the 5th that the International Criminal Court investigated US personnel and issued an arrest warrant against the Israeli Prime Minister and the former Defense Minister. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on the same day, the four judges were from Uganda, Peru, Benin and Slovenia. Among them, the reason for the sanctions was that the ruling authorized the International Criminal Court to investigate U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, and the other two were that the sanctions were that the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Garant.
