If the Supreme Court Minister (STF) is threatened with one for his performance at the head of the (PL) trial, members of the International Criminal Court have lived with an American coercion of similar effect for months.
The formal difference is that management uses specific legislation against four judges and a promoter of the Hague Court in the Netherlands, who analyzes war crimes and against humanity. Against Moraes, the option was to use A, designed to punish state corruption and human rights violation.
In February, the US President signed a decree stating that the ICT had been involved. “In practice, the court had issued an arrest orders against Israeli Prime Minister Yoav Gallant, his former defense minister, and Mohammed Deif, already killed.
Trump’s decree imposed sanctions on the British Karim Khan, prosecutor of the TPI, and gave 60 days to the state department to indicate other punishments. Against magistrates Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou (Benin), Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda), Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza (Peru) and Beti Hohler (Slovenia).
Two of them authorized investigations into American performance in Afghanistan; Two others accepted the arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
It was the Italian Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, announced the punishment on June 9. “Albanese’s political and economic war campaign against the US and will no longer be tolerated,” he wrote in X.
Days earlier, Albanese had published a report citing more than 60 companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Lockheed Martin, who would be profiting from Israeli military action in Gaza. In their words, companies “financially linked to apartheid and Israel’s militarism”.
“It is very serious to be on the list of people sanctioned by the US,” Albanese told the Associated Press agency last week. “My daughter is American. I live us and I have some goods there. So, of course this will hurt me,” said the jurist. “What can I do? I did everything in good faith and, knowing this, my commitment to justice is more important than my personal interests.”
Albanese was framed by the American Treasury with the same legislation used against the members of the ICC. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) expands the White House powers in case of national emergency. From it, other powers end up being invoked. It is, for example, one of the fundamentals Trump uses for reciprocal tariffs that imposes on several countries since April.
People designated as the target of these sanctions can no longer enter the US; assets and assets of these people in the US are blocked; It also provides for punishments for those who provide “funds, goods or services” to them. The end result is not much different from that obtained with the magnitsky law.
In the case of ICC and Albanse, the argument, centered on acts that may harm US citizens or companies, is not unprecedented. In 2020, in his first term, Trump ordered similar order against any individual who collaborated with the court’s work, then engaged in investigations related to American action in Afghanistan. , revoked in the Joe Biden government.
Trump rehabilitated his legislation with new rules that expand his reach. Academics and activists who do research and support work for the TPI prosecutor have entered the American court this year. Some postulants notice abuse of power of the Federal Administration, others underline that the legislation does not provide for information exchange as a reason for punishment, only the provision of funds, goods and services.
Contacted by Sheeta TPI spokesman stated that the court would not comment on the American performance against the court or against Moraes. In June, when the punishments of the judges were announced, the Court issued a statement by saying that “measures constitute a clear attempt to undermine the independence of an international judicial institution that operates under the mandate of 125 member states from around the world.”
“Virring those who work for liability does not help in any conflict civilians. This only encourages those who believe they can act with impunity.”
For Albanese, the sanctions “were calculated to weaken” their work. “I will keep doing what I have to do,” said the rapporteur of.
