The president of the International Criminal Court has lashed out at Russia for targeting its prosecutors and judges over the panel’s investigation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and slammed comments by a U.S. senator threatening the court. Judge Tomoko Akane said in her address to the annual meeting of the world’s top war-crimes court on Monday that attacks against the ICC were appalling — referring to Russia’s arrest warrants for the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan and several of its judges. The Japanese judge also had harsh words for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who called the court a “a rogue and politically motivated organization” after the judges last month issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
