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The International Criminal Court (https://www.icc-cpi.int/) — the permanent international tribunal established by the Rome Statute to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the crime of aggression. Incidents tagged with ICC relevance may fall under ICC jurisdiction or involve U.S. attempts to obstruct ICC investigations.
7 incidents
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
A strike on the night of September 1 hit a wedding near the Strait of Hormuz, killing at least four people including a 4-year-old and wounding dozens. Reuters-consulted experts judged the weapon likely American; the US has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility and says it is investigating.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
The Trump administration used its ICC sanctions order against three of the main Palestinian organisations that document abuses in Gaza and the West Bank and submit evidence to the International Criminal Court, freezing their US-linked assets and exposing anyone who works with them to sanctions risk.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
The United States sanctioned a UN human rights investigator for performing the duties of her mandate, in what UN experts described as an unprecedented threat to the international human rights system.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
A systematic campaign to destroy the International Criminal Court's ability to hold Americans accountable for war crimes, combining unprecedented sanctions on judges with demands to rewrite the Rome Statute itself. The campaign goes far beyond any previous US opposition to the ICC, seeking not merely non-cooperation but the permanent restructuring of international criminal justice.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
The administration imposed escalating sanctions on ICC officials -- including judges and prosecutors -- for investigating US citizens and allies, obstructing international criminal accountability and drawing broad condemnation from the UN and international legal community.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
President Trump publicly called for the removal of Gaza's Palestinian population, describing it as 'cleaning out' the territory. The UN, Arab League and international lawyers condemned the proposal as ethnic cleansing if implemented. The administration pressed Egypt and Jordan to accept Palestinians and reportedly explored relocation to Libya and East Africa; no transfer was carried out, and the September 2025 20-point plan states that no one will be forced to leave Gaza.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
Trump used a national-emergency sanctions order to freeze the assets of the ICC's chief prosecutor and a senior aide because the court was investigating possible crimes by US personnel in Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch called it a 'perverse use of sanctions, devised for alleged terrorists and drug kingpins.' The order was revoked in 2021.