US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures

The Trump administration has vowed to dismantle the international court "brick by brick".

US imposes sanctions on ICC president

The sanctioning of Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan is the United States' latest salvo against the Hague-based court. Washington also slapped sanctions on ICC Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal.

US to sanction the president and a prosecutor of international criminal court

Marco Rubio announced measures against Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israel’s war crimes in Gaza The US will sanction 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 it...

By Andrew Roth in Washington

US imposes sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane, according to Treasury Department

The sanctions freeze any US assets the individuals may have and essentially cut them off from the US financial system, with which almost all internationally operating banks have close ties.

US sanctions International Criminal Court chief Tomoko Akane of Japan

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced US sanctions on the president and a senior trial lawyer of the International Criminal Court (ICC), preventing the two officials from entering the US and using the US financial system.