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.
What exactly do these sanctions entail? The article doesn’t say. Travel restrictions? Banking restrictions? Do national banks abide by them and block all their accounts?
Bank restrictions, and yes since basically all banks are integrated through the US financial system she’s very much cut off from all electronic banking.
Gotta BRICS up.