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Anna Betts in New York

Judge blocks US sanctions on rights groups helping ICC Gaza war crimes inquiry

The International Criminal Court
The international criminal court in The Hague, which is investigating war crimes in Gaza. Photograph: Pierre Crom/Getty Images

A US federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing sanctions on two US-based human rights groups for working to help the international criminal court’s (ICC) investigations into war crimes in Gaza.

In a 30-page order issued on Tuesday, Jesse M Furman, a judge at the US district court for the southern district of New York, granted a preliminary injunction to the two groups, Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) and Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (Taag).

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