ICC deputy prosecutor says court insulated against US sanctions, FT reports
The International Criminal Court has insulated itself against potential court-wide US sanctions, its deputy prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told the Financial Times in an interview published on Friday.
“We have done a lot of work to ensure that the court is buffered from the impacts of any potential sanctions in the future,” she told the FT.
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The tribunal has spent the past year overhauling its systems, shifting its office software from Microsoft to German open-source alternative openDesk, and finding workarounds for health insurance and banking, Khan said.
The court has also been paying employees months in advance to mitigate payroll disruption, according to the FT.
Reuters reported earlier this week that US President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to announce them soon.
Reference Link:- https://www.reuters.com/world/icc-deputy-prosecutor-says-court-insulated-against-us-sanctions-ft-reports-2026-09-25/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
