Hii ni tweet alioiandika siku ya jana:
Nothing can remedy the suffering of the Tanzanian people who were injured or killed or arrested during the recent election. I want to thank Utibe Ntekim and our team for their excellent work. We filed today at the ICC!! More to come!!
Nyingine ni hii ikihusiana na hiyo ya hapo juu:
All of our work on Tanzania is dedicated to the incredible heroism of Tundu Lissu!! His is an example for the ages! When Tanzania is free it shall have TL as its rightful leader!
ICTR).
[2]
On 2 September 2020, Bensouda was named a "
specially designated national" by the United States government, which forbids all U.S. persons and companies from doing business with her.
[3]
According to an Associated Press report on 6 November 2015, Bensouda was advised that war crimes may have been committed on the Mavi Marmara ship in 2010, where eight Turks and one Turkish-American were killed and several other activists were wounded by Israeli commandos, but she ruled the case was not serious enough to merit an International Criminal Court probe.
[10]
In November 2017, Bensouda advised the court to consider seeking charges for human rights abuses committed during the
War in Afghanistan such as alleged rapes and tortures by the
United States Armed Forces and the
Central Intelligence Agency, crime against humanity committed by the
Taliban, and war crimes committed by the
Afghan National Security Forces.
[11] John Bolton,
National Security Advisor of the United States, stated that ICC Court had no jurisdiction over the US, which did not ratify the
Rome Statute
ControversiesEdit
In October 2017, Bensouda and two members of her staff were accused by
Der Spiegel of staying in touch with her predecessor, questioning the Prosecutor's own integrity when Bensouda sent confidential information to Ocampo. It was also suggested that Bensouda sought the advice of her predecessor on several occasions and perhaps allowed herself to be influenced by him, specifically in Kenya and Yazidi cases.
[20]
The
US State Department revoked Bensouda's visa in early April 2019.
[21][22] The Guardian reported that the visa withdrawal seemed to be the fulfillment of a threat from
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to prevent ICC personnel from investigating whether US servicemen or US officials engaged in
war crimes in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania.
[23][24][25] The visa revocation triggered criticism from United Nations officials.
[26]
In June 2020, US President
Donald Trump issued an
executive order which allowed the United States to block the assets of ICC employees and prevent them from entering the country. In September 2020,
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Bensouda and another senior ICC official,
Phakiso Mochochoko, would be sanctioned under this order and those who "materially support those individuals risk exposure to sanctions as well". Balkees Jarrah, senior counsel at
Human Rights Watch, tweeted that the move was a "stunning perversion of US sanctions, devised to penalize rights abusers and kleptocrats, to target those prosecuting war crimes".
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