The President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Tomoko Akane, was invited on Wednesday 19 March to speak to MEPs from the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). She called on the European Union to protect the institution from the US sanctions recently imposed by Donald Trump.
And for good reason: in an executive order signed on 6 February, the US President banned ICC officials and their families from entering the United...