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As Fatou Bensouda approaches the end of her tenure as ICC Prosecutor, Global Insight assesses the cases and events that have dominated her time at the Court and looks at the challenges that lie ahead for her successor.
Fatou Bensouda, ICC Prosecutor. Shutterstock.com / Mike Chappazo The Biden administration has also announced sweeping new sanctions on Russia over cyberattacks and have pledged to cooperate with China on tackling climate change. On repealing the ICC sanctions, US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, said his government recognised the need for dialogue and ‘engagement with all stakeholders in the ICC process.’ However, Blinken said the US continues to ‘disagree strongly’ with the investigations into Afghanistan and Pakistan. Luis Moreno Ocampo was the ICC’s first prosecutor from 2003-2012. He says his successor’s unwavering resolve to take on cases against global powers, like the US, has made her an all too obvious target. ‘She had to do what she had to do and, of course, when you investigate someone, you are not popular with these people,’ he tells
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The Declaration of Independence cataloged the ways in which King George III infringed upon American liberties. Among King George’s offenses listed in the Declaration was “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” The king claimed the authority to seize American colonists and force them to stand trial in Great Britain for criminal offenses allegedly committed in America.
Almost 250 years later, another foreign tribunal the International Criminal Court (ICC), located in The Hague in the Netherlands is working toward issuing arrest warrants for American citizens for allegedly abusing detainees in Afghanistan. The court is pursuing this course despite the fact that the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and therefore not subject to the ICC’s jurisdiction.