As part of Washington’s campaign against what it refers to as a “corrupt and fatally politicized” court, the United States on Tuesday announced sanctions against Japan’s International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and another top official. In the Trump administration’s most recent attack on the Hague-based court, Washington also imposed sanctions on Senegalese ICC Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye. “These individuals have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in a statement without offering any examples. In response, the ICC stated on Tuesday that the US sanctions “undermine the rule of law.” “When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk,” the court stated in a statement.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was founded in 2002 and serves as a last alternative for nations lacking sufficient legal frameworks to guaranty responsibility. It prosecutes people accused of the most serious crimes. Several of the ICC’s personnel have already been subject to penalties by the United States, which is not a party to the international treaty that created the court. They are prohibited by the measures from both entering the country and conducting business within the US financial system. It is mostly a reaction to ICC probes that target US partner Israel. Due to the conflict in Gaza, the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024.
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