US sanctions ICC president, senior legal official
The United States (US) has escalated its campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC), imposing sanctions on the court’s president, Japanese judge Tomoko Akane, and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal.
The ICC itself has condemned Washington’s action as a “flagrant attack” on the court’s independence, saying threats against judicial officials put the international legal order at risk.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the measures on X, saying the Trump administration was acting to protect Americans from what he called a “sham court after Washington earlier argued the ICC had overstepped its authority by investigating and seeking to prosecute officials from countries that were not members of the court”, including the United States and Israel.
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