{"id":380000,"date":"2021-04-02T22:41:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=380000"},"modified":"2021-04-02T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:42:01","slug":"biden-admin-lifts-trump-era-sanctions-on-icc-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-lifts-trump-era-sanctions-on-icc-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden admin. lifts Trump-Era sanctions on ICC officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-lifts-trump-era-sanctions-on-icc-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=380000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2393440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, holds his first cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:25 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 2, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>On Friday, Joe Biden announced the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/03\/31\/biden-remove-international-criminal-court-icc-sanctions-from-trump\/\">lift sanctions<\/a> on officials from the International Court of Justice. The move removed sanctions on ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and took a top deputy\u2019s name off the<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/policy-issues\/financial-sanctions\/specially-designated-nationals-and-blocked-persons-list-sdn-human-readable-lists\"> Specially Designated Nationals <\/a>list.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2393442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393442\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2393442 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-422.jpeg\" alt=\"Gambian war crimes lawyer Fatou Bensouda takes the oath during a swearing-in ceremony as the International Criminal Court&#039;s new chief prosecutor in The Hague, on June 15, 2012. The 51-year-old Bensouda is the first woman and the first African to head the team of prosecutors at the tribunal, which is currently investigating 15 cases in seven countries, all of them African. Taking the oath before ICC judges and a public gallery packed with foreign diplomats and dignitaries, Bensouda vowed to continue to pursue those wanted for crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. AFP PHOTO\/POOL\/ANP\/ BAS CZERWINSKI netherlands out (Photo by BAS CZERWINSKI \/ ANP \/ AFP) (Photo by BAS CZERWINSKI\/ANP\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-422.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-146379836-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-146379836-655x437.jpg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-146379836-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gambian war crimes lawyer Fatou Bensouda takes the oath during a swearing-in ceremony as the International Criminal Court\u2019s new chief prosecutor in The Hague, on June 15, 2012.&nbsp; (Photo by BAS CZERWINSKI\/ANP\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visa restrictions on certain ICC personnel were also rescinded. The sanctions were put in place by the Trump administration over the ICC\u2019s probe into U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan as well as Israeli troops in the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcement by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecBlinken<\/a> on ending sanctions and visa restrictions against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IntlCrimCourt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IntlCrimCourt<\/a> personnel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EzBaJqr4v5\">pic.twitter.com\/EzBaJqr4v5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Herman (@W7VOA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W7VOA\/status\/1378059934303150088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Critics have said the sanctions were justified as the U.S. has never ratified the treaty creating the court, which therefore has no jurisdiction to investigate U.S. nationals.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rep-gaetz-i-dont-plan-to-resign\/\">Rep. Gaetz: I Don\u2019t Plan To Resign<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, holds his first cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311599,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-422.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden admin. lifts Trump-Era sanctions on ICC officials","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-422.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden admin. lifts Trump-Era sanctions on ICC officials","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}