Overview

• The State and Treasury departments named judges Kimberly Prost (Canada) and Nicolas Yann Guillou (France) and deputy prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji) and Mame Mandiaye Niang (Senegal).
• Washington said Prost authorized an ICC probe of U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and Guillou backed arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, while the deputies supported actions upholding those warrants.
• Sanctions freeze any U.S. assets, cut the officials off from the U.S. financial system, and bar U.S. persons and institutions from transactions with them.
• The ICC condemned the move as a flagrant attack on judicial independence, France expressed dismay, the U.N. warned of impediments to the prosecutor’s work, and Israel welcomed the sanctions.
• The step follows earlier U.S. penalties on ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan and four judges in June, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled the court a national security threat targeting the U.S. and Israel.