"The software and cloud biz has now asked for the record to be changed after Hugh Milward, Microsoft senior director of corporate, external and Legal, told the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee that the ICC - "not Microsoft" - decided to turn off email services to Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor sanctioned by US President Donald Trump."
""There was a sanction - a US government sanction - against a single individual. We worked with the ICC throughout the whole period, and they were fully aware of all of the discussions that were taking place between us, the US government, and the ICC around this individual, and it was the ICC's decision to terminate and to respond to that... sanction, not Microsoft's. So we were not... put in a position where we were terminating the agreement. We were working with the ICC throughout.""
Microsoft apologized to the Business and Trade Committee and asked for the parliamentary record to be corrected after an inaccuracy in statements about interactions with the International Criminal Court. Microsoft said it was in contact with the ICC throughout the process that led to the disconnection of a sanctioned ICC official's Microsoft email account and that Microsoft never ceased or suspended services to the ICC. The sanctioned official was identified as Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor, who was sanctioned by US President Donald Trump. Microsoft maintains that the ICC made decisions about user access.
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