‘Financial Death Penalty’: How US Sanctions Are Upending the Lives of ICC Judges

‘Financial death penalty’: How US sanctions are upending the lives of ICC judges

‘Financial death penalty’: How US sanctions are upending the lives of ICC judges Three International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have had their bank accounts frozen, lost their health insurance and were cut off from basic financial services as a result of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, a complaint filed in a New York federal court reveals. US sanctions, imposed under Executive Order 14203 signed by President Donald Trump in Febr…

ICC judges sue Trump, administration in NYC over punitive sanctions

Three International Criminal Court (ICC) judges are suing Donald Trump and his administration in New York. The legal action concerns the Trump regime’s punitive sanctions against ICC figures for issuing arrest warrants for wanted Israeli war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yo’av Gallant. The judges say that the sanctions are an attempt to bypass the judicial process by punishing and coercing ICC judges: The Sanctions Regime … is designed to exe…