India, Aug. 20 -- The International Criminal Court has responded to a new round of U.S. sanctions targeting its president and a senior prosecutor, calling them "a flagrant attack" against the court. "These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates pursuant to the mandate conferred by its States Parties from across regions," the ICC said in a statement on Wednesday.
Established in 2002 under the Rome Statute, the ICC is a separate institution and not part of the UN, although the Security Council may refer cases to the court.
Neither the United States nor Israel is a party to the Rome Statute under which the court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide and...