ICC Judge Kimberly Prost: U.S. Sanctions Are 'Completely Futile'
ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost describes how U.S. sanctions upended her daily life—canceling credit cards, blocking services like Alexa, and prompting her health insurer AXA to deny claims—even though she was sanctioned for a judicial decision in an Afghanistan investigation. She is challenging the sanctions in U.S. court and vows to keep hearing cases, including alleged crimes in Timbuktu, Mali.
We are judges, and we are being told that rather than deciding our cases on the basis of the facts and the law before us, as we are duty bound to do, we're being asked to decide the cases or not decide them in accordance with the wishes of the U.S. government.