{"id":238280,"date":"2020-06-11T17:53:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238280"},"modified":"2021-09-26T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T23:15:40","slug":"washington-sanctions-international-criminal-court-officials-investigating-us-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/washington-sanctions-international-criminal-court-officials-investigating-us-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington sanctions International Criminal Court officials investigating US war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The very definition of \u201crogue state\u201d: a state which considers itself above international courts.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Donald Trump administration is imposing economic sanctions on International Criminal Court officials who are engaged with \u201cany effort\u201d to investigate or prosecute US personnel for war crimes.<br \/>\nIn a statement on Thursday, the White House press office said President Donald Trump has also authorized the \u201cexpansion of visa restrictions\u201d against ICC officials and their family members.<\/p>\n<p>The US has repeatedly threatened to impose sanctions on the Hague-based court and asserted that it has no right to investigate or prosecute US personnel without Washington\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n<p>The White House statement described the court\u2019s actions as \u201can attack on the rights of the American people\u201d and a threat to \u201cinfringe upon our national sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It added that the ICC was established \u201cto provide accountability for war crimes\u201d but said \u201cin practice\u201d it had become \u201cunaccountable and ineffective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by the ICC to investigate allegations of war crimes by Israel against Palestinians have also drawn ire from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/491537-us-economic-sanctions-icc\/?fbclid=IwAR3kIdG9W0RrvcytSHxgMwoMH5F0cK-DiziLs3P8bm_ZJrM3FOCYEz__Ykw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/491537-us-economic-sanctions-icc\/?fbclid=IwAR3kIdG9W0RrvcytSHxgMwoMH5F0cK-DiziLs3P8bm_ZJrM3FOCYEz__Ykw<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The very definition of \u201crogue state\u201d: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}