{"id":301666,"date":"2025-08-25T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=301666"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:59:33","slug":"international-criminal-court-new-us-sanctions-a-flagrant-attack-on-judicial-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/international-criminal-court-new-us-sanctions-a-flagrant-attack-on-judicial-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"International Criminal Court: New US Sanctions \u2018a Flagrant Attack\u2019 on Judicial Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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21 Aug 2025<\/span> \u2014 The ICC has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States yesterday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push-back surrounding investigations into US and Israeli officials.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The sanctions target judges Kimberly Prost of Canada and Nicolas Guillou of France, as well as two deputy prosecutors: Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This follows earlier measures against four other judges and the ICC prosecutor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Affront to victims<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In a press statement announcing the new round of sanctions, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the ICC \u201cis a national security threat that has been an instrument for lawfare against the United States and our close ally Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN-backed court denounced<\/a> the sanctions as \u201ca flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution\u201d.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, \u201cthey constitute also an affront against the Court\u2019s States Parties, the rules-based international order and, above all, millions of innocent victims across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigating grave crimes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The ICC investigates the gravest crimes of concern to the international community, namely genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. Read our explainer <\/strong><\/em>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands, and was established under a 1998 treaty known as the Rome Statute which came into force four years later.<\/p>\n

The United States and Israel are not among the 125 States that are party to the treaty.<\/p>\n

Last November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, together with a former Hamas commander, in connection with the conflict in Gaza, citing allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

It is also probing war crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan<\/a> by all sides during years of conflict, including the US, following the allied invasion of the country in May 2003.<\/p>\n

Strong and undeterred<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Court reiterated that it \u201cstands firmly behind its personnel and victims of unimaginable atrocities\u201d and \u201cwill continue fulfilling its mandates, undeterred, in strict accordance with its legal framework as adopted by the States Parties and without regard to any restriction, pressure or threat<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ICC called upon \u201cStates Parties and all those who share the values of humanity and the rule of law to provide firm and consistent support to the Court and its work carried out in the sole interest of victims of international crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN underlined the key role that the ICC has in international criminal justice and expressed concern over the imposition of further sanctions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision imposes severe impediments on the functioning of the office of the prosecutor<\/strong> and respect for all the situations that are currently before the court,\u201d UN Spokesman St\u00e9phane Dujarric told journalists in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudicial independence is a basic principle that must be respected, and these types of measures undermine the foundation of international justice<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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