ICC President: US Sanctions Are an Attack Against Sovereign States
International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane has responded to US sanctions that were imposed to "defend sovereignty". She described them as an attack against sovereign states.
Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has publicly responded to sanctions imposed by the United States. The ICC is a permanent international court that investigates and tries individuals for serious international crimes. The US has presented the sanctions as a way to defend sovereignty.
Akane called the measures an attack against sovereign states. In doing so, she set her own assessment against the US justification: in her view, the sanctions affect not only the court itself but states more broadly.
The source, a short Al Jazeera video report, gives no detail on the specific restrictions, on whom they target, or on when they took effect. What is clear at this point is that the head of the ICC has publicly criticised the sanctions and stressed their implications for sovereign states.
