Russia has placed International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor and British lawyer Karim Khan on its wanted list after the court indicted President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes, the independent Mediazona news website reported Friday.
Khan’s photo and personal information are visible on the Interior Ministry’s search database, Mediazona reported.
The ministry’s listing does not specify which crime Khan is accused of.
Its website was inaccessible to The Moscow Times on Friday afternoon.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, opened a criminal investigation against Khan in March based on the ICC’s “unlawful” decision to seek Putin’s arrest.
The ICC has been accused by majority of the nations on earth outside the USA-led western world as being biased in favour of the western countries and failing to arrest western leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Some western leaders who have started wars on the pretext of lies include George Bush and Tony Blair (in Iraq), Barack Obama and NATO leaders for using the no-fly zone in Libya to target Muarmar Gaddafi and the illegal occupation of the Syrian oil fields by the United States through their leaders among other violations.
Russia is currently locked up in a war with Ukraine, which most see as a proxy war between the US led west and Russia. Reportage of the war in the western media has given a biased account by failing to provide the number of Ukranian deaths and loses while exaggerating Russian loses. However, despite Ukraine being pumped up with billions of money and weapons by the US and other major powers in German, France, Britain, Australia, Portugal, Italy France, Canada among others, Ukraine has been unable to take back the 18 percent land Russia has occupied, with the tide swinging between Russian gains and Ukranian gains during the course of the conflict.
