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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/747117

โ€˜Itโ€™s surrealโ€™: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24014988

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This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out โ€œAlexaโ€.

There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. โ€œAlexa was dead. She wouldnโ€™t talk to me,โ€ Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.

Prost had been added to the United Statesโ€™ sanctions list, because in 2020 she ruled to authorise an investigation into possible atrocities in Afghanistan, including by US troops. Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account.

It was just the start of what Prost describes as a โ€œpervasive, negative effectโ€ of the sanctions across all aspects of her life, which has shut her out from much of the international banking system.

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[โ€“] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thats why they didn't sign the ICC, cause they are the most powerful country so they have the ability to not sign it, so they can keep the wild west theme and keep economically terrorizing the rest without any accountability