The US State Department announced sanctions on four International Criminal Court officials — judges Kimberly Prost (Canada) and Nicolas Guillou (France) and prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji) and Mame Mandiaye Niang (Senegal). The sanctions freeze any assets the targets hold in US jurisdictions. The ICC and the United Nations denounced the measures, while Israel welcomed them. The US, not a member of the court, has previously imposed penalties on former chief prosecutor Karim Khan and four other judges. The US characterized the sanctioned individuals as having directly engaged in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute US or Israeli nationals without consent.
The Trump administration has ramped up its efforts to hobble the international criminal court in what the ICC has denounced as a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution. The US state department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two prosecutors, saying they had been instrumental in efforts to prosecute Americans and Israelis. As a result of the sanctions, any assets that the targets hold in US jurisdictions are frozen.
It is just the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken against the Hague-based court, the world's first international war crimes tribunal. The US, which is not a member of the court, has already imposed penalties on the ICC's former chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, who stepped aside in May pending an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, and four other tribunal judges.
These individuals are foreign persons who directly engaged in efforts by the international criminal court to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of either nation, Rubio said. He added that the administration would continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to protect our troops, our sovereignty and our allies from the ICC's illegitimate and baseless actions.
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