The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday that it “deplores” sanctions imposed this week by the U.S. State Department on its president, Judge Tomoko Akane, and Abdoulaye Seye, a Senegalese senior trial lawyer for the Office of the Prosecutor.
The State Department announced the sanctions Tuesday, accusing Akane and Seye of having “directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction.”
The sanctions include the freezing of assets in the country, blocking financial transactions, and prohibiting entry to the U.S. They were imposed under an Executive Order issued by President Donald Trump in February 2025, which reads: “The United States unequivocally opposes and expects our allies to oppose any ICC actions against the United States, Israel, or any other ally of the United States that has not consented to ICC jurisdiction.”
Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a state party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that founded the ICC and went into effect in 2002, and therefore do not recognize the jurisdiction of the court.
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Its funny how much the US bawks at even the tiniest of international accountability.
The US has put more action behind screwing over the ICC for trying to prosecute Israel over its literal war-crimes in the middle east and Genocide against Palestinians, than it has over the billionaire paedophile ring that occurred right under their noses.
Because how dare any other country or authority tell the US what it can and cannot do in the jurisdiction of said countries and authorities.
SLAMS
“We’re not criminals, YOU’RE criminals! Wah!!”
They won’t even bother to deny the war crimes.