U.N. experts rebuke U.S. 'threats', visa ban on ICC investigators

United Nations human rights experts called on the United States on Friday to sto...

GENEVA - United Nations human rights experts called on the United States on Friday to stop its “threats” and visa bans against the International Criminal Court , which they rejected as “improper interference”.

The Hague-based court has responded that it was an independent and impartial institution and would continue to do its work “undeterred” by Washington’s actions. “We are particularly concerned in light of recent reports of senior ICC staff resigning from their positions as a consequence of these threats,” it said.The United States did not ratify the Rome treaty that established the ICC in 2002. U.S. President Barack Obama took some steps to cooperate with it.

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