Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.
The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement.
Rubio announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer, because they had “directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction”.
Europeans right now finding that particular stain on the table cloth infinitely interesting.
For anyone wondering, the ICC does in fact have jurisdiction for Gaza because the Palestinian government joined.
TheGuardian can’t go correcting genociders on their lies now. Important to quote them verbatim at the top of the article and never correct them.
Yeah, kind of a crappy omission but the Guardian.
Nothing demonstrates innocence quite like trying to stop an investigation.
Marco Rubio is literally a fascist.
Marco Rubio, as his coworkers would say, is not one of the good ones
Well, he does have big shoes to fill.
Ahhh, the US. A rogue state.
A puppet state of a rogue state, which is even more pathetic and loathsome.
Not even bothering to try and claim they’re not war criminals.
Honestly? Good.
I’m glad fascists are increasingly going mask-off.
The polite fictions were getting us nowhere. The US has been a rogue nation for decades, and the faster it loses international influence and legitimacy the better.
What does sanctioned even mean in this context? How does the US government sanction a single person living in a completely different country?
All sanctions imposed by any government are effectively nationwide legally imposed boycotts.
Sanctions against Russia for example are generally things like : we will not buy your oil, we will not allow our companies to sell products to you, etc. etc.
Same thing goes for sanctions against individuals, they make it illegal for any US based entities to have certain scopes of dealings with the target. Some sanctions go further and also refuse to deal with entities who deal with the target.
Therefore, depending on what sanctions have been imposed, they may have just made it illegal for them to have a visa or MasterCard, use any Microsoft or Google or apple software or services, etc. etc. etc.
- It’s the other way around actually. Illegal for Visa/MasterCard or Microsoft or Google or apple, etc. to allow them to use their services.
There’s precedents on deleting your google account and denying credit card transaction as “sanction”. I won’t be surprised other US-based platforms to follow suits. This just highlights ever increasing need of digital and financial sovereignty
If their bank has dealings in the USA, they can be de-banked. If they use American credit cards, those can be shut down. Accounts for companies based in the USA can be disabled/deleted or otherwise flagged. They can be blocked from flying on American and allied airlines, or from flying through those countries.
Basically the US government will convince whoever they can to stop dealing with that person, or just to fuck with them in any way they can.
About time some serious non-US alternatives to Visa and MasterCard emerge. I am not sanctioned by anyone, but still hate that I have to use those cards (or PayPal fwiw) all the time.
its so fucking nuts to be living here.
As someone living in Japan, I’m also curious what the Japanese response will be. The current gov probably has their head so far up the US’s ass and wants to do its own shady shit, so I doubt there would be anything. Maybe silence was a part of the deal of the US helping the JPY.
The one thing I’d fix in your comment is the word “current” to “every.” At least for as long as I’ve been alive, anyway.
Fair point. In my lifetime, but before I had any interest in living in Japan, the LDP fell out of power twice. Apparently, those in control abruptly face-planted so bad it’s been back to the LDP since (though we’ll see which way the pendulum swings next election).
Have anyone noticed that the use of the term America is being used less and less? The US seems to be more prevalent.
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Any unhinged despots out there looking for a regime puppet to string up in a square somewhere should feel free to use Marco Rubio please (will throw in Ted Cruz for free).
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