After Undermining International Criminal Court, U.S. Now Wants It to Charge Russians
says that the ASPA “would clearly allow the United States to share intelligence information about Russian offenses, to allow expert investigators and prosecutors to assist, and to provide law enforcement and diplomatic support to the Court,” Dodd and Bellinger added.
In 2020, after the ICC launched an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity by U.S. as well as Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on ICC officials but Joe Biden reversed them.in Afghanistan by limiting suspects to Taliban and ISIS leaders.
“This was clearly a political decision — there’s really no other way it can be interpreted,” human rights lawyer Jennifer Gibson. Gibson’s human rights group Reprieve submitted representations for clients who alleged torture by the CIA in the brutal Bagram prison, as well as relatives of civilians allegedly killed in U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan. “It gave the US and their allies a get out of jail free card,” Gibson said.
Following a five-year preliminary examination, former ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda found a reasonable basis to mount an investigation of “.” She was “satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip . . . potential cases arising from the situation would be admissible; and there are no substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve the interests of justice.
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