Human rights lawyers on Thursday launched a legal proceeding against President Donald Trump’s administration for imposing economic sanctions on employees of International Criminal court. Human rights lawyers said that the sanction breaches the United States constitution. According to the information our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in New York gathered, the legal proceeding was lodged at a district court in New York by the Open Society Justice Initiative (a public interest law centre that specialises in war crimes cases). The Open Society Justice Initiative named President Trump, Mike Pompeo (U.S. Secretary of State) and seven other members of Trump’s administration in the lawsuit. James Goldston (the executive director of Open Society Justice Initiative) stated that President Trump’s executive order imposing economic sanctions on employees of International criminal court violates constitutional rights including freedom of speech and it also prevents the plaintiffs from carrying out work in support of International justice. Some months ago, President Trump’s administration imposed economic and travel sanctions on employees of the International Criminal Court in Hague and anyone supporting its work, citing the International court’s involvement in an investigation to find out if US military committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Fatou Bensouda (International Criminal Court prosecutor) was also blacklisted on 2 September 2020.
Source: Viewers Corner News.