The USA is the first to adopt punitive measures against the employees of the International court of justice in The Hague. In order to respond to investigation of possible war crimes of their own military in Afghanistan.
The USA have made their threat from the past the autumn to come true and the first sanctions against the International criminal court (ICC) in The Hague imposed. Background investigations of the Institution, whether U.S. soldiers and employees of the secret service, the CIA in Afghanistan committed war crimes.
As a first step, the US announced that Secretary of state Mike Pompeo, that all these studies involved employees of the criminal court, the Visa should be withdrawn in order to enter the United States. First entry bans had already been adopted. He appealed to the ICC to change its “course” of investigations against the United States in sight. Otherwise, threatened further punitive measures – in the case of any investigations against US citizens and against allies of the United States, for example, against Israel.
The US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo has announced the first sanctions against the International criminal court.
torture and ill-treatment?
sanctions against the court of justice had brought US security adviser John Bolton last September in the game. Shortly thereafter, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a speech before the UN, the Hague Institution with any legitimacy.
in 2016, the chief Prosecutor at the International criminal court, Fatou Bensouda, had published a report in which she raised allegations against US soldiers and CIA employees, they were applied in Afghanistan, torture, and prisoners were brutally mistreated. Most of the alleged crimes, according to the report, in the period from 2003 to 2004. In November 2018 requested Bensouda, the ICC eventually to an official investigation of your allegations.