BREAKING: Hungary withdrew from the International Criminal Court – UPDATED
The government has decided to quit its International Criminal Court membership, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday. Gergely Gulyás said Hungary would initiate the termination procedure “within the constitutional and international legal framework” later in the day.
The ICC “used to be a respectable initiative, but recently it seems to have become a political body,” the minister said, adding that “pressing charges against Israeli head of government Benjamin Netanyahu has been the saddest example.” “The Hungarian government considers all that unacceptable, and has decided not to continue participation in the ICC’s activities.”
Hungary has been “in a peculiar situation as … the national assembly has never proclaimed the ICC statues, therefore the document has not become a part of Hungarian law,” Gulyás said. “Our clear legal position is that nobody should be arrested or prosecuted in Hungary on that basis,” he said. The government wants to resolve “the questionable situation” through “leaving the ICC … rather than by proclaiming its statutes,” he said.
The ICC’s activities have recently raised “serious concern internationally”, Gulyás said. The United States, China, and Turkey have never joined the body, while “the US wants to sanction ICC judges with bipartisan support,” he said, adding that “the incoming German chancellor and the incumbent Prime Minister of Poland have made it clear that despite … their legal obligation they would ignore the ICC’s decision and welcome the Israeli head of government”.
UPDATE: Bill on Hungary’s withdrawal from ICC submitted to parliament
Hungary’s foreign ministry has prepared and submitted to parliament the bill on the country’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Thursday. “The International Criminal Court has discredited not only itself, but the entire international judicial system with its openly anti-Semitic decision to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” Szijjártó said, according to a ministry statement.
“The ICC has reduced the international judicial system to a politically motivated institution with this decision,” he said. “And we Hungarians don’t wish to be part of a politically motivated judicial system.” Szijjártó said the Hungarian government has therefore moved to pull out of the Rome Statute and withdraw Hungary from the ICC. He said parliament could start debating the bill before the end of the month and schedule a vote on it at the end of May, before notifying the United Nations. “Under international law, our withdrawal will enter into effect a year from now,” Szijjártó said.
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If the police goes against my enemy, the hungarians cheer uo, if is my “ally” then hungarians condem it. Yhe hungraian double standard 🤣
Hungary “surges” on – to pay a HEFTY price for the Orban “dystopia” styled “dogma” of Political Ideas and Philosophy.
Orban – his Fidesz Government DEEPEN the name of our country Hungary – of being afforded referred to of any Respect & Trust – in the DEMOCRATIC world of Europe, the European Union and GLOBAL DEMOCRACY.
EXCELLENT move.
The I.C.C. is a parody of itself. If you are powerful, or a protege of the powerful, you will never get there, regardless of what you do. Does anyone see the likes of Bush Jr. or Blair or Macron ever seeing the inside of that joint? Meanwhile, if you’re not rich and powerful, they’ll drag you into their little kangaroo court and subject you to a show trial to justify the whole exercise.
That “court” has been heavily politicized, as anyone with a half a brain cell could, would, and should have foreseen. And no court or legal regime at all is always better than one where prosecutions, judgments, and sentences are dictated by politics.
Hungary “surges” on – to pay a HEFTY price for the Orban “dystopia” styled “dogma” of Political Ideas and Philosophy.
Orban – his Fidesz Government DEEPEN the name of our country Hungary – of being afforded referred to of any Respect & Trust – in the DEMOCRATIC world of Europe, the European Union and GLOBAL DEMOCRACY.
A criminal monster like Nazinyahu will feel perfectly at home in Orbánistan.
What a great idea, this should have been done years ago. ICC is a biased organization; ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu before even commenting on hamas’ atrocities. No reasonable country should support a biased, incompetent court. It is morally wrong.
Now, it is time to withdraw from the European Court of Justice. The qualification of judges on the court is you must hate Hungary, judicial laws and fairness not required.
If you don’t mind my correcting the title:
HUNGARY WITHDRAWS FROM ICC – INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT OF SHARIA
The Jews did not bow to Mohammed 1400 years ago, so Mohammed butchered the Jews.
The Jews will not bow to Mohammed’s descendants today, so Mohammed’s descendants butchered the Jews on 10/7.
Gaza is the result, and HAMAS is entirely responsible for and caused, the result.
Today only the Jihadists who follow their pedophile prophet and their non-Muslim Jewhater fans bow to Mohammed’s descendants.
Mohammed’s descendants glorify death. The Jews glorify life.
That is only a subtle distinction HAMAS’ fans fail to see.
Meanwhile the European Union is busy empowering Mohammed’s descendants by trying to lock up the Jews whose only crime has been the bettering of man’s condition on this planet, and the crime of defending their nation. REF: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE https://www.discovery.org/a/11771/
“Crimes” based on the testimony of a South African party that is now in the process of killing the whites of South Africa. https://www.newsweek.com/white-farmer-killed-every-five-days-south-africa-authorities-do-nothing-851470
And the United States has sanctioned the prosecutor Imam Kharim Khan and his Sharia court. You see, Imam Khan has been accused of a series of sex crimes not sanctioned by his religion.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j8dq235e2o
Khan’s and the Sharia Court’s Religion of Peace that is expressed well daily by the fact that in almost every conflict across the world it is the major participant. I mean places where there are no Jews to be blamed for the existence of hurricanes, droughts, volcano eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis.
The World’s Problem with the Jews and Israel is this.
57 Islamic states are not enough, but one Jewish state is too much.
The pro-Palestinian marchers in the streets never had a problem with the half million butchered in Syria, another half in Iraq, Darfur and many other genocides; the butchering of the Christian populations in Arabia and Africa (most of them are dead or had left.) The anti-Zionists only problem is Jewish self-defense.
It works like this: When the Jews are doing the dying and the Muslims are doing the killing, all is well with the world. When the Muslims are doing the dying and the Jews are doing the killing, the UN and its Sharia Courts rise into the streets and the front pages of the Orbán-hating media.
Probably Mr. Andrew should educate himself before stating anything:
Hungary withdrawing from the ICC: False. The ICC is not a “Sharia court” — it’s a secular international legal institution established by the Rome Statute.
Claim about Jews and Mohammed 1400 years ago: Oversimplified and historically inaccurate.
“Jews glorify life; Muslims glorify death”: This is a dehumanizing stereotype. Many Muslim-majority societies cherish peace and life, and equating all Muslims with extremists is bigotry.
ICC is a “Sharia court” run by “Imam” Karim Khan: False. Karim Khan is a British lawyer, not an imam, and the ICC is not religious. The claim about sex crimes is unsubstantiated and appears to be a distortion of an unrelated news article.
South African genocide of whites: This is a widely debunked myth. Crime in South Africa affects all racial groups, and there’s no evidence of a state-sponsored campaign against whites.
Muslims are involved in every global conflict: Funny when looking at statistics from religious prospects, you find Christianity and secularism killed the most in our globe!!!
Anti-Zionists are silent on non-Jewish suffering: False. Many human rights activists and organizations criticize all forms of injustice, including those in Syria, Iraq, and Africa.
One Jewish state vs. 57 Islamic states: I want to understand how Bezalel Smotrich from Ukrainian origins have more right to live in Israel than Palestinian who lived their for centuries or millenniums