‘Unacceptable’ interference: International Criminal Court objects to US sanctions prompted by war crimes investigation

The US blacklisting of International

The US blacklisting of International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda amounts to an “unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law,” the ICC said after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the sanctions.

Bensouda, a Gambian attorney who was attempting to investigate alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan, was sanctioned on Wednesday. ICC’s head of Jurisdiction, Complementary, and Cooperation Division Phakiso Mochochoko was also blacklisted for “having materially assisted” the prosecutor, Pompeo told reporters.

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