'It is necessary to work out amendments to legislation prohibiting any activity of the ICC on the territory of our country,' Russian parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin says.
Russia’s parliament speaker on Saturday, March 25, proposed banning the activities of the International Criminal Court after the courtVyacheslav Volodin, an ally of Putin’s, said that Russian legislation should be amended to prohibit any activity of the ICC in Russia and to punish any who gave “assistance and support” to the ICC.
Volodin said that the United States had legislated to prevent its citizens ever being tried by the Hague court and that Russia should continue that work.The ICC issued an arrest warrant earlier this month accusing Putin of the war crime ofhundreds of children from Ukraine. It said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility.
In its first warrant for Ukraine, the ICC called for Putin’s arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation since February 24, 2022.
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