Trump administration sanctions four ICC judges for ‘targeting’ U.S., Israel

In a statement announcing the sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the court is 'politicized.'

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President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s cases regarding alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and over the court’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Washington designated Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza of Peru, Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou of Benin, and Beti Hohler of Slovenia, according to a statement from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.