“An assault on the administration of justice”: US sanctions against ICC threaten system of international accountability, warn UN experts GENEVA (9 October 2026) – The US Government’s imposition of sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution is a brash attempt to dismantle the international legal system created by States, jurists, human rights advocates and other stakeholders to hold perpetrators of the gravest crimes to account, UN experts* warned today, calling on States committed to the rule of law to stand together in defence of the Court and its independence. “Sanctioning the institution entrusted with delivering justice for the gravest international crimes is an assault on the foundations of international accountability and rule of law,” the experts said. “No State should place itself beyond the reach of the law by intimidating the court established to enforce it and attempting to dismantle it.” “This attack on the ICC directly injures the victims of a