BREAKING: In shocking attack on #ICC @secpompeo threatens collective punishment against named staff of the court and their FAMILIES for court's ongoing investigation into #Afghanistan crimes that implicate US state.gov/secretary-mich…
.@SecPompeo names #ICC chef de cabinet to prosecutor, Sam Shoamanesh, & head of jurisdiction, complementarity, & cooperation division, Phakiso Mochochoko, as "helping drive ICC Bensouda’s effort to use court to investigate Americans", claims they're "putting Americans at risk"
.@SecPompeo threatens to impose travel bans on the ICC staff "and their family members":
"We want to identify those responsible for this partisan investigation and their family members who may want to travel to the United States..."
"We want to identify those responsible for this partisan investigation and their family members who may want to travel to the United States..."
This isn't just unlawful collective punishment against family members; it's not just a disturbing attack on staff of a judiciary -- where the US has voted to refer other nations for prosecution --; it's abuse of federal authority to use sanctions against actual wrongdoers
Hi @JoeBiden @BernieSanders -- looking to you to condemn this US State Department assault on the staff and FAMILIES of #ICC - abuse of sanctions authority in flagrant attack on judicial independence, unlawful collective punishment
