The International Criminal Court Must Indict Donald Trump NOW.

He and Noem (for starters) are guilty of Crimes against Humanity. See below.

Photo: Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General According to a report cited on Mother Jones, some of the men detained at this Border Patrol facility had been crowded in standing-room-only cells for a week. A holding cell with a maximum capacity of 41 had 88 men jammed inside. Most adults did not shower while housed in the facility, even though several were detained as long as a month. They were wearing the same clothing they had on when they arrived weeks prior, and some were given only wet wipes “to maintain personal hygiene.”

The International Criminal Court is arguably the court of last resort against Crimes against Humanity. More than 120 countries worldwide belong to the court, but there are more than 60 that don’t. Included in the holdouts are Bahamas, Cuba, Chile, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Suriname, and the United States—all of which signed the agreement in the first instance, but did not ratify their adherence to the final treaty.

On the other hand, China, India, Israel, Turkey, Pakistan, and Russia—not famed for their warm-hearted embracing of human rights—are among 60 other countries, are those who openly reject the interference of the ICC in their territories. So, the United States is not exactly in great company when it stays out of the ICC so its own rights violators don’t get arrested on their own soil.

But that doesn’t mean they can’t be indicted. Witness Benjamin Netanyahu, now under indictment, is charged with the

war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.

As soon as Netanyahu steps foot into any one of the 123 country members of the ICC, he’s under arrest.

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And I’m suggesting that it’s time that the ICC indict Donald Trump, Christy Noem, et al. for Crimes Against Humanity. And they have some juicy choices for counts. Here is Article 7 from the ICC’s Rome Statute.

The bolded entries below are clear, present, current violations of human rights law:

Article 7 - Crimes against humanity

1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

(a) Murder;

(b) Extermination;

(c) Enslavement;

(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

(f) Torture;

(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;

(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;

(j) The crime of apartheid;

(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

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Please call your Congress persons and ask them to make this a priority.

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Meanwhile, here are some links to our previous articles on the ICC and its indictments. Also, the article on Ben Ferencz, the Nuremberg prosecutor who helped form the court, is an inspiring read as he was one of the bravest, most conscientious human rights campaigners we’ve ever known.

Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz is why we have the ICC. Don't let Trump take it.

(No) Sympathy for the Devil (s) - Part I

Defense against the Dark Arts Here! Trump Wants to Destroy the ICC. Guess why!

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