Posted on 02/08/2025 4:58:19 AM PST by bert
Karim Khan, who is British, was named on Friday in an annex - not yet made public - to an executive order signed by Trump a day earlier, a senior ICC official and another source claimed.
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person to be hit with economic and travel sanctions authorized by US President Donald Trump that target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of US citizens or US allies, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday.
Khan, who is British, was named on Friday in an annex - not yet made public - to an executive order signed by Trump a day earlier, a senior ICC official and another source, both briefed by US government officials, told Reuters. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a confidential matter.
The sanctions include freezing of US assets of those designated and barring them and their families from visiting the United States.
Waiting the 60 days The order directed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in consultation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to submit a report within 60 days naming people who should be sanctioned.
The ICC on Friday condemned the sanctions, pledging to stand by its staff and "continue providing justice and hope to millions of innocent victims of atrocities across the world, in all situations before it." Court officials met in The Hague on Friday to discuss the implications of the sanctions.
The International Criminal Court, which opened in 2002, has international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in member states or if a situation is referred by the UN Security Council.
Dozens of countries warned on Friday that the US sanctions could "increase the risk of impunity for the most serious crimes and threaten to erode the international rule of law."
"Sanctions would severely undermine all situations currently under investigation as the Court may have to close its field offices," the 79 countries - who make up about two-thirds of the court's members - said in a statement.
UN deal with US Under an agreement between the United Nations and Washington, Khan should be able to regularly travel to New York to brief the UN Security Council on cases it had referred to the court in The Hague. The Security Council has referred the situations in Libya and Sudan's Darfur region to the ICC.
"We trust that any restrictions taken against individuals would be implemented consistently with the host country's obligations under the UN Headquarters agreement," deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Friday.
Khan was most recently in New York last week to brief the Security Council on Sudan.
"International criminal law is an essential element to fighting impunity, which is unfortunately widespread," Haq said. "The International Criminal Court is its essential element, and it must be allowed to work in full independence."
Trump's move on Thursday - repeating action he took during his first term - coincided with a visit to Washington by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who - along with his former defense minister and a leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas - is wanted by the ICC over the war in the Gaza.
During a visit to the US Congress on Friday, Netanyahu praised Trump's move, describing the court as a "scandalous" organization "that threatens the right of all democracies to defend themselves."
The Trump Revolution might replace the Labor disease thus allowing the country to return to some semblance of wellness.
Nigel cometh?
So they have subpoenas out and are hauling the members of Hamas and Hezbollah in for justice. No? Oh, my bad.
Dozens of countries warned on Friday that the US sanctions could “... threaten to erode the international rule of law.”
Well since only a few countries follow the “rules”, no biggie.
And wow..the EU has really gone off the rails of sanity...I hope you’re right.
Speaking freely basically is a crime over there lately, in a lot of instances. At least for people that think like us.
“...in an annex - not yet made public - to an executive order ...”
Executive orders have annexes that aren’t made public??
BS sentence from the article. The ICC is not a UN court and it only has jurisdiction within those countries which are signatories. The US, Israel, China and Russia, among many others, are not signatories. My opinion is we either support it or we don’t….be consistent rather than situational.
My perfect solution is get not just him but the whole UN the hell out of the US, let some other country deal with the expense and crime committed by these criminals with diplomatic immunity. It's time for some other nation to give them a home.
I doubt he will be the last one sanctioned.
That scored a chuckle for me. Well done.
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