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"Over a year ago the US put Karim Khan on the Specially Designated Nationals
(SDN) sanctions list. This means that Karim Khan's US assets are now frozen, US
companies are prohibited from doing business with him, and even some non-US
countries may be afraid to do business with him due to secondary sanctions.
Who is Karim Khan? Some Russian oligarch? A military general? No, he's the
prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC). And his 'crime' was
issuing an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant (former
Israeli defense minister) for war crimes.
The ICC is based in the Netherlands, which is outside of the US's jurisdiction,
they can't really arrest him. So they resort to sanctioning him instead.
Now I originally reported on this in February when the story just broke. But
since then it has developed quite a lot. The US sanctions dragnet has expanded
considerably to include over 10 additional members of the ICC and a UN reporter
for some reason.
The UN reporter, Francesca Albanese, is actually a big one because the US is a
member of the UN and the UN has a rule that says members are not allowed to do
things like this. But the UN is also terrible at actually enforcing its rules,
so the US will probably get away with this.
Then, more recently, there was the move against Autistici/Inventati (A/I) which
is a company providing internet services. Hosting, encrypted email, mailing
lists, that sort of thing.
They are on a counter-terrorism sanctions list. The 'official' explanation is
that they allowed some terrorist groups on the platform. Which, as many have
pointed out, doesn't really make sense because if a terrorist group joins
Facebook you don't sanction all of Facebook. It also violates some procedural
rules designed to avoid just this type of collateral damage.
So why did they do it? Well, A/I was providing services primarily to anti-war
and environmental activists. And they were based in Italy, outside of US
jurisdiction. So quite similar to the Francesca Albanese story. Just targeting
many more people this time."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
