INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Judges at the International Criminal Court want Hungary to explain why it failed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he
visited Budapest earlier this month, Euro News reported.In a filing released late on Wednesday, the Hague-based court initiated
non-compliance proceedings against Hungary after the country gave Netanyahu a red carpet welcome despite an ICC arrest warrant for crimes
the court, claiming on local radio that the ICC was "no longer an impartial court, not a court of law, but a political court."The Hungarian
to arrest Netanyahu."We signed an international treaty, but we never took all the steps that would otherwise have made it enforceable in
ICC have previously dismissed similar arguments.The ICC and other international organizations have criticized Hungary's defiance of the
warrant against Netanyahu.
This article first appeared/also appeared in Tehran Times
