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The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
Some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials.
Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since U.S. President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, according to interviews with current and former ICC officials, international lawyers and human rights advocates.
this is why ☞ “President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan”
Geodad@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
People need to stop using M$.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I totally agree, and I just switched from Windows to Linux for my desktop, but this isn’t on Microsoft - it’s sanctions on the ICC by the fascist regime running the country where they (Microsoft) are based in support of the fascist regime destroying Gaza. (I know I’m probably over simplifying it, but that’s my take on the article)
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s still preemptive compliance by Microsoft.
Trump loves this shit because if it blows up, he can just say “I never ordered this.”
Geodad@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I’ve used Linux since 2005.
Since M$ started adding spyware, I have tried to avoid it as much as possible. Proton has been amazing with getting games running.
Armand1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the EU has been building out alternatives to American cloud companies like Microsoft for a while now, and it’s coming in handy for some of them. I think France in particular are working on this and launched their own alternatives to Google Docs etc.
techspot.com/…/107225-france-germany-unveil-docs-…
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Hmm we may have for a long time considered alternatives to the American cloud and tools but we still are extremely reliant on it in all administrations in France. As I recall 70% of our online government services are on American clouds. We also are almost exclusively using Microsoft windows and office for the desktop workstations.
I’m pessimistic in the sense that Europe has tried to offer an European cloud before. It was a spectacular failure that just costs us a lot of money so that businesses here could just take the money and then pretend they couldn’t make it work.
We definitely had a real shot in Europe to be sovereign. We just missed it. It’s never too late but it’s so prohibitively expensive to switch out of Microsoft ecosystem that many governments entities will rather fork out money to Microsoft.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure but this looks like Microsoft complying with sanctions. I was unaware sanctions were applied to the ICC, which is complete nonsense.