Human rights groups sue Trump administration over International Criminal Court sanctions

The president signed an executive order in 2025 placing sanctions on the ICC, whose jurisdiction the U.S. does not recognize.

By Sammy Westfall

Human rights groups sue Trump administration over ‘crippling’ ICC sanctions

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s executive order targeting the ICC for its investigation of Israeli crimes in Palestine Four prominent US human rights organizations have accused the Trump administration of using its “crippling” sanctions regime against the international criminal court (ICC) to undermine global efforts to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, the groups – the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional...

By Alice Speri

Rights groups launch new legal challenge to Trump campaign against ICC

Prominent organisation charge sanctions against international tribunal trample consitutional rights, hinder their work.

Rights groups sue Trump administration over ICC sanctions

Four human rights groups in the United States are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its sanctions against the International Criminal Court, which they say are unlawful.

Rights groups sue the Trump administration over ICC sanctions

Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court, arguing that sanctions against ICC judges and prosecutors are undermining the ability to prosecute people responsible for humanity’s worst crimes. The complaint – filed in the Southern District of New York – says that US President Donald Trump’s executive order last year targeting The Hague-based criminal court and the US sanctions iss...

By Associated Press

‘Seeking end to sanctions regime’: US human rights groups sue Trump over ICC crackdown

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By TOI World Desk

US human rights groups sue Trump over anti-ICC push

'The plaintiffs are seeking an end to this sanctions regime, which transgresses the president’s authority and violates international and US law,' the lead counsel representing the human rights groups says

By Reuters