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…Türk said he was "profoundly disturbed" by the #sanctions & called for their "prompt reconsideration & withdrawal".
The 4 judges named are ALL #women: Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza of Peru, Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou of Benin, & Beti Hohler of Slovenia.
The #ICC has responded in a stmnt, saying it "deplores" the sanctions, which were "a clear attempt to undermine" its #independence.
#Trump #law #judiciary #democracy #authoritarianism #misogyny
The #UN's #HumanRights chief has demanded the #US government withdraw #sanctions it imposed on 4 #judges at the #InternationalCriminalCourt (#ICC).
#VolkerTürk said in a stmnt that "attacks against judges" run directly counter to "respect for the rule of #law & the equal protection of the law – values for which the US has long stood".
Secy of #State #MarcoRubio announced the sanctions on Thurs, for what he described as the "illegitimate" targeting of #Israel & the US.
bbc.com/news/articles/ce80pl1x…
UN human rights chief calls for US to withdraw sanctions on ICC judges
Volker Turk's intervention comes after the US sanctioned four judges over "illegitimate" targeting of Israel and the US.Yang Tian (BBC News)
#Trump imposes #sanctions on four #ICC #judges in unprecedented [outrageous] move
Trump's admin on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the #InternationalCriminalCourt, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu & a past decision to open a case into alleged #WarCrimes by #US troops in #Afghanistan.
"Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked."
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Trump just did to the US tech industry what he did to the US defense industry: killed any future foreign business and set in motion its permanent decline. Nobody will buy US tech now.
"#Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor."
Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.
Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩
Get the hell out of it right now.
For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.
One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.
#Trump’s #sanctions on #ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work
source: apnews.com/article/icc-trump-s…
The sanctions will “prevent #victims from getting access to justice,” said #LizEvenson, international justice director at #HumanRightsWatch.
#usa #politics #justice #international #law #fail #government #whitehouse #president #crime #humanrights
