Trump imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court

WASHINGTON — 

U.S. President Donald Trump connected Thursday authorized economical and question sanctions targeting radical who enactment connected International Criminal Court investigations of U.S. citizens oregon U.S. allies specified arsenic Israel, repeating enactment helium took during his archetypal term.

The determination coincides with a sojourn to Washington by Israel's Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu, who -- on with his erstwhile defence curate and a person of Palestinian militant radical Hamas -- is wanted by the ICC implicit the warfare successful the Gaza Strip.

It was unclear however rapidly the U.S. would denote names of radical sanctioned. During the archetypal Trump medication successful 2020, Washington imposed sanctions connected then-prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and 1 of her apical aides implicit the ICC's probe into alleged warfare crimes by American troops successful Afghanistan.

The ICC did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The sanctions see freezing immoderate U.S. assets of those designated and barring them and their families from visiting the United States.

The 125-member ICC is simply a imperishable tribunal that tin prosecute individuals for warfare crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the transgression of aggression against the territory of subordinate states oregon by their nationals. The United States, China, Russia and Israel are not members.

Trump signed the enforcement bid aft U.S. Senate Democrats past week blocked a Republican-led effort to walk authorities mounting up a sanctions authorities targeting the warfare crimes court.

The tribunal has taken measures to shield unit from imaginable U.S. sanctions, paying salaries 3 months successful advance, arsenic it braced for fiscal restrictions that could cripple the warfare crimes tribunal, sources told Reuters past month.

In December, the court's president, justice Tomoko Akane, warned that sanctions would "rapidly undermine the Court's operations successful each situations and cases, and jeopardize its precise existence."

Russia has besides taken purpose astatine the court. In 2023, the ICC issued an apprehension warrant for President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the warfare transgression of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia has banned introduction to ICC main authoritative Karim Khan and placed him and 2 ICC judges connected its wanted list.