UN court judge quits The Hague citing political interference
Source: The Guardian
A senior judge has resigned from one of the UNs international courts in The Hague citing shocking political interference from the White House and Turkey.
Christoph Flügge, a German judge, claimed the US had threatened judges after moves were made to examine the conduct of US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Turkeys government had earlier made baseless allegations to end the tenure of a Turkish judge sitting on a United Nations court known as the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals with the connivance of the UN, he claimed.
Aydın Sefa Akay was removed following his arrest and subsequent release over alleged links to Fethullah Gülen, the US-based cleric blamed by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for a failed coup attempt.
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Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Mon 28 Jan 2019 14.49 GMT
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/28/international-criminal-court-icc-judge-christoph-flugge-quits-citing-political-interference-trump-administration-turkey
SunSeeker
(51,621 posts)PatSeg
(47,556 posts)on the world stage.
Calista241
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(9,581 posts)RainCaster
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(37,648 posts)bdamomma
(63,913 posts)just try to arrest the wanna be dictator, tRump needs to declared a world menace.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Igel
(35,335 posts)It's unpleasant, but since we're reading a report about what a judge says "Trump" said, it's nice to cut through any changes made in transmission of the content and see what the content really is.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/full-text-john-bolton-speech-federalist-society-180910172828633.html
The judge cites https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/john-bolton-castigate-icc-washington-speech more than Bolton.
I wonder what made the judge quit now when the objectionable speech was made in early-ish September '18.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)League of Nations as Germany smashed one agreement or nation after another. Only we're the smashers of international norms and laws.