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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ashifa Kassam

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

Kimberly Prost: ‘These are coercive measures designed to attack our ability to do our jobs objectively and independently.’
Kimberly Prost: ‘These are coercive measures designed to attack our ability to do our jobs objectively and independently.’ Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Reuters

When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.

For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.

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