Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Monday it had opened a criminal case against the prosecutor and International Criminal Court (ICC) judges, who on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges.
The committee, charged with investigating serious crimes, said there was no basis for Putin’s criminal liability and that heads of state enjoy absolute immunity from the jurisdiction of foreign states.
The ICC prosecutor’s actions showed signs of being crimes under Russian law, the committee said, knowingly accusing an innocent person of a crime and “preparing an attack against a representative of a foreign state enjoying international protection, in order to to make international relations difficult”. .
The Russian move is a symbolic gesture of defiance in response to the warrant issued against Putin on Friday, which accused him of a Russian war crimes commissioner of deporting children from Ukraine to Russia.
The Kremlin called the move outrageous but legally void, as Russia is not a signatory to the treaty that created the International Criminal Court.
Source: Terra
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