US EditionInternational Criminal Court Chiefs Slam US Sanctions on Top Staff
The sanctions block US financial transactions and freeze assets of four ICC officials accused of prosecuting US and Israeli nationals without consent, escalating diplomatic tensions.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced sanctions on four ICC officials: judges Kimberly Prost and Nicolas Guillou and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang, barring Americans and U.S. institutions from business and freezing their U.S. assets.
- U.S. officials say the sanctions respond to ICC efforts to investigate and prosecute U.S. and Israeli nationals without consent, following probes of U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant last November, continuing punitive measures from earlier this year.
- Prost is identified by the State Department as a Trial Chambers II, IV and X judge who authorized the ICC investigation into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan; Guillou presided over arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, while Khan and Niang support these efforts and lead the Office of the Prosecutor.
- The ICC presidency urged States Parties to unite in defending the court and its officials, while United Nations spokesman Stéphane Dujarric warned these sanctions could impede the prosecutor's office.
- The sanctions form part of a wider U.S. pattern that extends earlier designations of Karim Khan and other judges this year and relies on Executive Order No. 14203, with the ICC's mandate under the Rome Statute covering jurisdiction in 128 nations.
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