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cbabe

(6,480 posts) Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:04 AM 22 hrs ago

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Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court

Ashifa Kassam
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.00 EST

When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.

For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.

The fallout was both material and psychological. As her credit cards, Amazon and Google accounts were cancelled, she reeled from what she described as a “direct and flagrant attack” on one of the world’s most prominent courts.

“These are coercive measures designed to attack our ability to do our jobs objectively and independently,” she said. “We want people to appreciate how wrong this is.”

Since Trump returned to power last year, his administration has worked steadily to hobble the Hague-based court. To date, 11 of the court’s officials – including the chief prosecutor and eight judges – have been placed under sanctions, subjecting them to measures that include bans on travel to the US and fines and prison sentences for American companies who provide them services.

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Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions (Original Post) cbabe 22 hrs ago OP

Thanks for posting! I hadn't heard of this. -nt CrispyQ 22 hrs ago #1

More reasons for the world to disconnect from the US newdeal2 22 hrs ago #2

They're fine with fascism for now. Initech 21 hrs ago #9

Not just the judges, but their entire families are sanctioned! mainer 21 hrs ago #3

Is this because of their indictments against Netanyahu or because of expected future Russian indictments from the ICC? ChicagoTeamster 21 hrs ago #4

It's all about protecting Israel and Netanyahu. AloeVera 21 hrs ago #6

Thanks for the explanation. I know Russia also seeks to avoid tribunals for Ukraine war crimes. ChicagoTeamster 21 hrs ago #8

By destroying what remains of international law, he is protecting all war criminals. AloeVera 20 hrs ago #10

US sanctions International Criminal Court judges linked to Israel, Afghanistan probes chowder66 21 hrs ago #7

UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears usonian 21 hrs ago #5

Petty revenge at every scale. maxsolomon 20 hrs ago #11

ICC stand strong bdamomma 20 hrs ago #12

Back in Trump's first term popsdenver 19 hrs ago #13

This is truly fucked up RainCaster 18 hrs ago #14

Wow. What else are these crooks doing? Joinfortmill 15 hrs ago #15

Bonkers! yellow dahlia 13 hrs ago #16

Ugh... sakabatou 13 hrs ago #17

Trump and his regime are Nazis. BradBo 1 hr ago #18

CrispyQ

(40,853 posts)

1. Thanks for posting! I hadn't heard of this. -nt

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:08 AM

22 hrs ago

newdeal2

(5,114 posts)

2. More reasons for the world to disconnect from the US

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:16 AM

22 hrs ago

Ultimately, American companies will pay the price because they will lose access to other markets.

Initech

(108,191 posts)

9. They're fine with fascism for now.

Reply to newdeal2 (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:45 PM

21 hrs ago

I hope it hurts their precious fucking shareholders a lot. Fuck them all.

mainer

(12,531 posts)

3. Not just the judges, but their entire families are sanctioned!

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:56 AM

21 hrs ago

All for trying to do their jobs.

This is 10th level assholery by Trump and Co. Europe has got to protect them.

ChicagoTeamster

(660 posts)

4. Is this because of their indictments against Netanyahu or because of expected future Russian indictments from the ICC?

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:15 PM

21 hrs ago

Also, attorneys from Canada and Spain wrote charging documents accusing George Bush and Dick Cheney of war crimes over the Iraq invasion.

AloeVera

(4,095 posts)

6. It's all about protecting Israel and Netanyahu.

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:27 PM

21 hrs ago

And killing off the international rule of law as a side benefit.

In an executive order last year, Trump accused the court of engaging in “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel”, suggesting that the sanctions were in retribution for pursuing investigations into US and Israeli officials. Neither the US nor Israel is among the 125 signatories of the Rome statute, the 1998 treaty that gave rise to the court.

ChicagoTeamster

(660 posts)

8. Thanks for the explanation. I know Russia also seeks to avoid tribunals for Ukraine war crimes.

Reply to AloeVera (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:39 PM

21 hrs ago

Thought it might be a bit of both.

AloeVera

(4,095 posts)

10. By destroying what remains of international law, he is protecting all war criminals.

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #8)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 01:12 PM

20 hrs ago

Himself and Putin included. So you may well be right.

chowder66

(12,056 posts)

7. US sanctions International Criminal Court judges linked to Israel, Afghanistan probes

Reply to ChicagoTeamster (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:38 PM

21 hrs ago

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the measures in a statement that cited both the court’s probe of alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and its issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

more here....
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/us-sanctions-international-judges-israel-afghanistan-probes-00390891

usonian

(24,320 posts)

5. UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:22 PM

21 hrs ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221026250

“Visa, Mastercard … the urgent issue is our payment system. Trump can cut everything off,” Lalucq said. “The rest is poetry. I urgently request that the commission organise a European Airbus for payment systems: you can’t say you weren’t warned.”

more at the thread and link.

maxsolomon

(38,462 posts)

11. Petty revenge at every scale.

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 01:18 PM

20 hrs ago

Cutting off ICC Judge company credit cards to subpoena-bombing SM companies to get information on anti-ICE protests.

Where do they find the time. I picture entire rooms of Trumpist apparatchiks planning revenge and coercion 24/7.

bdamomma

(69,404 posts)

12. ICC stand strong

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 01:41 PM

20 hrs ago

Trump is a sewer rat, he's back in a corner. I hope the ICC names him a threat to society./the world.

popsdenver

(1,972 posts)

13. Back in Trump's first term

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 02:09 PM

19 hrs ago

the UN and Hague had a major investigation into Syria's Assad and Putin for international war crimes and crimes against humanity........Russia/Putin had supplied Assad, the dictator of Syria, with Chemical Weapons to use against the rebels who were trying to get Assad out of power. Assad had used the poisonous gas bombs to drop on suspected strongholds/towns of these rebels............The bombs had wiped out entire towns of people, Men, Women, Children, Babies and caused their horrific deaths.
The UN and Hague had gone in with their inspectors for a year, documenting/proving that Assad/Putin had violated the Geneva Convention by using chemical weapons. There was a U.S. Military base that had provided protection for the Rebels. As the investigation was being completed, (Trump told the U.S. Military base to BUG OUT, and immediately abandon the base, leaving everything for Assad/Putin to use).......The investigators were immediately ordered to get out, as their only protection was the U.S. Military that Trump had ordered to abandon. As the investigators loaded on their planes out of there, the area around the airport was already being bombed by Assad. The investigators barely got out, and returned to the Hague with all the documents/evidence of Assad/Putin's war crimes..........(and suspicion of Trump's complicity in aiding Putin/Assad).........I am not sure what happened from that point on as far as prosecuting all those individuals. However, it is reported that tthere are many nations that if Putin goes to, he will be arrested on the spot and sent to the Hague for Crimes Against Humanity, International War Crimes, and using chemical weapons per the Geneva Convention.......