The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.
The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement.
Rubio announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer, because they had “directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction”.
The state department last month unveiled an effort to “dismantle the threat” posed by the ICC to US sovereignty.
Didn’t they effectively un-person another ICC judge last year by doing this?
He said he was old enough to remember how to manage his own calendar and pay bills by check, so it didn’t hit him as hard as his younger friends expected.
Also I bet it gives him massive street cred with all theinternational human rights lawyer hunnies.