{"id":22472,"date":"2026-09-23T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/lavrov-accuses-icc-of-political-bias-over-western-crimes-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:15:15","slug":"lavrov-accuses-icc-of-political-bias-over-western-crimes-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/lavrov-accuses-icc-of-political-bias-over-western-crimes-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov Accuses ICC of Political Bias Over Western Crimes Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian embassy in Germany quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying that the International Criminal Court had ignored for years what he described as the West&#8217;s crimes in cases related to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov also claimed that the ICC was under the influence of its Western supporters and that the court&#8217;s handling of cases involving different countries was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as the International Criminal Court, established as an international judicial body to investigate war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, has jurisdiction over a number of cases related to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavrov accuses the International Criminal Court of political bias and says it ignored Western crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}