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The UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers in a statement on Monday urged the US to immediately withdraw sanctions imposed on judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and to repeal Executive Order 14203 issued in February 2025, Anadolu reports. The call follows a fresh round of sanctions designations issued on Dec. 18, which brought the total number of sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors to 10. “Sanctions targeting ICC justice personnel strike at the very heart of the promise born of the Rome Statute and the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials: a foundational pledge that no atrocity would go unanswered by international justice,” said Margaret Satterthwaite, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges […]
