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The judge, Christoph Flügge, has worked with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) since 2008. More recently, he got involved with a preliminary investigations (điều tra sơ bộ) into claims (tố cáo) that US military service members (lính mỹ) and CIA operatives (đặc nhiệm cia) tortured (tra tấn) prisoners (tù nhân) in Afghanistan.

Flügge told German newspaper Zeit that he handed in his resignation after open threats from US officials, including a speech by hawkish (diều hâu) national security adviser (cố vấn an ninh quốc gia) John Bolton last September, where Bolton "wished death" on the Court.

"If these judges ever interfere in the domestic concerns (công việc nội bộ) of the US or investigate an American citizen, he said the American government would do all it could to ensure that these judges would no longer be allowed to travel to the United States – and that they would perhaps even be criminally prosecuted (truy tố hình sự)," Flügge told Zeit, in an interview translated by The Guardian.