Editorial

15:20 JST, February 11, 2025

Sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), of which 125 countries and regions including Japan are members, are nothing less than an attack on international order based on the rule of law. The United States must withdraw the sanctions.

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on ICC officials and others. The order called the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants in November last year against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others on suspicion of war crimes and other charges “illegitimate and baseless actions” targeting Israel and the United States.

The executive order states that ICC officials and their families will be subject to measures such as freezing their assets........

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