The United Kingdom's Brazen Assault on ICC Independence

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court at The Hague. © 2018 HRW In a deeply unsettling letter made public this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asserted the United Kingdom’s strong opposition to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Palestine investigation. The letter, sent to the Conservative Friends of Israel group, also seems intended to put political pressure on UK nationals set to serve on the court, including the newly elected ICC prosecutor. After five years of preliminary inquiry, the ICC prosecutor commenced an investigation in March opening a long-awaited…

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