Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court (ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.
The new sanctions designations were unveiled by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, who called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement.
Rubio announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer, because they had “directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction”.
All sanctions imposed by any government are effectively nationwide legally imposed boycotts.
Sanctions against Russia for example are generally things like : we will not buy your oil, we will not allow our companies to sell products to you, etc. etc.
Same thing goes for sanctions against individuals, they make it illegal for any US based entities to have certain scopes of dealings with the target. Some sanctions go further and also refuse to deal with entities who deal with the target.
Therefore, depending on what sanctions have been imposed, they may have just made it illegal for them to have a visa or MasterCard, use any Microsoft or Google or apple software or services, etc. etc. etc.