India, Aug. 11 -- Four human rights organisations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court, arguing that sanctions imposed on the tribunal's judges and prosecutors are unconstitutional. The groups slammed the order as undermining efforts to hold perpetrators of the world's gravest crimes accountable.

The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, argues that US President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the Hague-based court, along with sanctions issued against a UN human rights expert and three Palestinian rights groups, amounts to a "blatantly illegal attack on international justice" that should be struck down, according to a press release accompanyi...