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Marlise Simons, Megan Specia. U.S. Revokes Visa of I.C.C. Prosecutor Pursuing Afghan War Crimes. New York Times (Paris). 2019-04-05: A4 [2019-04-06]. The visa revocation — confirmed on Friday by the office of the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, and the State Department in Washington — was assailed by rights advocates as unprecedented interference by the United States into the workings of the court, established nearly two decades ago to prosecute war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Patrick Wintour, Owen Bowcott, Julian Borger. US revokes ICC prosecutor's visa over Afghanistan inquiry. The Guardian. 2019-04-05 [2020-12-04]. The US state department does not provide details of individual visa cases but made clear it was implementing the threat last month from the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to impose restrictions on any ICC staff who investigated US or allied personnel. The move marked a hardening of America’s policy of non-cooperation with the ICC, and a downgrading of the role of multilateralism.