00:01The United States imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court's President Tomoko Akane, a Japanese judge, and a senior trial
00:08lawyer, Abdullaya Say of Senegal.
00:10U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the sanctions were imposed under a Trump executive order issued last year
00:16that allows penalties against the ICC.
00:18The ICC was established in 2002 by the international community to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
00:25The U.S. is not a member of the court.
00:27The ICC condemns the move, saying the measures undermine the rule of law.
00:32The ICC says, quote,
00:33When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at
00:39risk.
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