Four rights groups file lawsuit against Trump administration over ICC sanctions

In a lawsuit filed in federal court, the American Friends Service Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and Open Society Institute argued that the US administration’s sanctions against the ICC and those supporting its work constitute a “blatantly illegal attack on international justice.”

“This is an unlawful abuse of power constituting a frontal attack on the rule of law, the independence of judges, prosecutors, and lawyers, basic precepts undergirding the international legal order, and the principle of equal access to justice. The effect is to cause grave damage to the ability to bring to justice the perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity,” the groups said.