The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday condemned US sanctions against the body's president, President Tomoko Akane of Japan, and trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal.
"These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution," the Hague-based court said in a statement.
It said that the US sanctions "undermine the rule of law" and jeopardize the international legal order.
The court stressed it would "continue to fully discharge its mandate with independence and impartiality, in full accordance with the Rome Statute and in the interest of victims of international crimes."
Though the United States signed in 2000 the Rome Statute that established the court in 2002, it never ratified it and under President Donald Trump, Washington accuses the court of being "politicized."
