Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.
The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement.
Rubio announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer, because they had “directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction”.
Europeans right now finding that particular stain on the table cloth infinitely interesting.
For anyone wondering, the ICC does in fact have jurisdiction for Gaza because the Palestinian government joined.
Marco Rubio is literally a fascist.
Marco Rubio, as his coworkers would say, is not one of the good ones
What does sanctioned even mean in this context? How does the US government sanction a single person living in a completely different country?
There’s precedents on deleting your google account and denying credit card transaction as “sanction”. I won’t be surprised other US-based platforms to follow suits. This just highlights ever increasing need of digital and financial sovereignty
If their bank has dealings in the USA, they can be de-banked. If they use American credit cards, those can be shut down. Accounts for companies based in the USA can be disabled/deleted or otherwise flagged. They can be blocked from flying on American and allied airlines, or from flying through those countries.
Basically the US government will convince whoever they can to stop dealing with that person, or just to fuck with them in any way they can.
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