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10:00 18.05.2025 •
Karim Ahmed Khan, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor.
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The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen, AP reports.
The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
Some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials.
Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since U.S. President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, according to interviews with current and former ICC officials, international lawyers and human rights advocates.
Staffers and allies of the ICC said the sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct basic tasks, let alone seek justice for victims of war crimes or genocide.
The February order bans Khan and other non-Americans among the ICC’s 900 staff members from entering the U.S., which is not a member of the court. It also threatens any person, institution or company with fines and prison time if they provide Khan with “financial, material, or technological support.”
ICC prosecutor Eric Iverson is fighting the sanctions in U.S. courts. Iverson filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking protection from the sanctions.
Iverson “cannot do, what I would describe as, basic lawyer functions,” said Allison Miller, who is representing Iverson in the suit.
American staffers at the organization, like Iverson, have been warned by its attorneys that they risk arrest if they return home to visit family, according to ICC officials. Six senior officials have left the court over concerns about sanctions.
One reason the the court has been hamstrung is that it relies heavily on contractors and non-governmental organizations. Those businesses and groups have curtailed work on behalf of the court because they were concerned about being targeted by U.S. authorities, according to current and former ICC staffers.
Senior leadership at two U.S.-based human rights organizations told the AP that their groups have stopped working with the ICC. A senior staffer at one told the AP that employees have stopped replying to emails from court officials out of fear of triggering a response from the Trump administration.
The cumulative effect of such actions has led ICC staffers to openly wonder whether the organization can survive the Trump administration, according to ICC officials who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.
One questioned whether the court would make it through the next four years.
Trump, a staunch supporter of Netanyahu, issued his sanctions order shortly after re-taking office, accusing the ICC of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.” Washington says the court has no jurisdiction over Israel.
Trump’s order said the ICC’s “actions against Israel and the United States set a dangerous precedent, directly endangering current and former United States personnel, including active service members of the Armed Forces.” He said the court’s “malign conduct” threatens “the sovereignty of the United States and undermines the critical national security and foreign policy work of the United States Government.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
…Karim Khan is known not only as a lawyer, but also as a brother. A pedophile brother.
In May 2022, Karim Khan's brother Imran Ahmad Khan (a 49-year-old politician from the British Conservative Party) was jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of sexually assaulting an underage boy.
On February 23, 2023, Imran Ahmad Khan was released from prison after serving only nine months of his 18-month sentence on pedophile charges.
On March 17, three weeks after the release of his pedophile brother from prison, his own brother writes out an "arrest warrant" in the International Court of Justice not only for Russian President Vladimir Putin, but also for Russia's Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, that is, a person who protects children from people like the prosecutor's brother…
Well, this is a British typical game against Russia.
They, in London, also don’t like Israel…
It is not a question of Court and a Law. This is Politics.
Now Trump is breaking the dirty British game.
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