Beninese International Judge, Sanctioned by Washington, Warns About Threats to the ICC
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At the UN rostrum this week, Donald Trump called on all member countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court judged "out of control". The institution feared in the coming days new American sanctions, while 13 members of the ICC are already under sanctions. One of these judges was in Paris this Wednesday, received at the National Assembly.
At a conference in Paris in support of the judges of The Hague, in the viewer of authoritarian powers, the Vice-President of the International Criminal Court called on States, particularly in Europe, to act. MP Pouria Amirshahi is preparing to table a resolution in this direction.
Paris. Yesterday, the judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Reine Alapini-Gansou, the target of sanctions by the United States, asked the States to act against the attacks directed against the institution, one day after President Donald Trump urged to abandon it. “The ICC is going through an unprecedented crisis, it is the first time in the history of international law that it threatens to destroy an institution of this magnitude,” sa…
On Wednesday 23 September, at the National Assembly, Beninese judge Queen Alapini-Gansou testified about the consequences of the US sanctions against the International Criminal Court, while French elected officials are seeking to organize a European response. According to a Euro MP, the ICC is "lethally threatened" by these sanctions.
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