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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€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is economic terrorism

[โ€“] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

America is a terrorist state, so that tracks

[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

[โ€“] androidul@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Outrageous. Good for the judge for going public, everyone has to know what happens when you're cutoff US services and how untrustworthy they are.

Interfering in the judicial system makes U.S. no different than the wild-west they run in Russia with oligarchs.

Another proof that EU must immediately come with its own payment system and cut these meaningless ties with US corporations.

[โ€“] D_C@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

"Do as we demand or we'll bully and terrorise you."
Yep, seems about right for the american government.

[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey babe, wake up!

Another reason dropped today!

[โ€“] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Any statement is irrelevant the next day ๐Ÿ˜œ The US madmen presidency is like a wild bronco.