EU ’standing by‘ ICC after US sanctions the court’s prosecutor – 28-nation bloc ‘not happy’ with Washington’s move, which came in protest of war crimes probe into US military personnel in Afghanistan | Timesofisrael

The European Union will defend the International Criminal Court against attempts to undermine it, a spokesman for the bloc said Thursday after Washington slapped sanctions on the Hague-based tribunal’s top prosecutor.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced sanctions against ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and another senior court official, Phakiso Mochochoko, over a war crimes probe into US military personnel in Afghanistan.