Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
Executive Order 13928: First-Term Sanctions on ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (2020)
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 The order was revoked in 2021.