Four additional International Criminal Court (ICC) officials are facing U.S. sanctions over actions targeting Americans and Israelis. The State Department cited President Donald Trump’s executive order titled «Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court,» as its reasoning for issuing the sanctions.

Those named are ICC Judge Kimberly Prost (Canada), ICC Judge Nicolas Yann Guillou (France), and ICC Deputy Prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji) and Mame Mandiaye Niang (Senegal).

«These individuals are foreign persons who directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of either nation,» Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.

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While neither the U.S. nor Israel are members of the ICC, the individuals at the center of the sanctions have taken actions against both nations in their official capacities. According to the State Department, Prost ruled to authorize an investigation of U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, while Guillou ruled to authorize the ICC arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.

Meanwhile, Khan and Niang are subject to the sanctions «continuing to support illegitimate ICC actions against Israel,» including the arrest warrants, since assuming leadership of the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor in May.

«The [ICC] continues to disregard national sovereignty and facilitate lawfare through efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, and prosecute American and Israeli nationals,» Rubio wrote on X announcing the sanctions. «In response, I am sanctioning four additional ICC officials. We will continue to hold accountable those responsible for the ICC’s morally bankrupt and legally baseless actions against Americans and Israelis.»

Flag with the logo of the of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 29, 2022 in Den Haag, Netherlands. (Alex Gottschalk/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

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In response to a request for comment, the ICC pointed Fox News Digital to a public statement.

The ICC said it «deplores the announcement of new designations for sanctions by the U.S. administration.»

«These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates under the mandate from 125 States Parties from all regions. They constitute also an affront against the Court’s States Parties, the rules-based international order and, above all, millions of innocent victims across the world,» the ICC’s statement read.

US President Donald Trump listens to Secretary of State Marco Rubio speak during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025.  (NDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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The State Department said that the sanctions are meant to «impose tangible and significant consequences» against Prost, Guillou, Khan and Niang. Their U.S. assets have been frozen, and U.S. persons and businesses are prohibited from dealing with them. This also applies to companies in which they hold at least 50 percent ownership. Additionally, the sanctions cover workarounds, such as indirect transactions.

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In February, Trump signed an executive order in which he claimed that the ICC had «engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.» The order also stated that the U.S. rejects any ICC actions against it or its allies who have «not consented to ICC jurisdiction.» The order lists the types of sanctions that can be imposed, many of which are now being applied to Prost, Guillou, Khan and Niang.

El juez Alexandre de Moraes, del Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil, concedió el miércoles un plazo de 48 horas a la defensa del ex presidente Jair Bolsonaro para que explique el “incumplimiento de las medidas cautelares, la reiteración de conductas ilícitas y la existencia comprobada de riesgo de fuga”.

La decisión judicial surge en el contexto del proceso penal contra el ex mandatario, acusado de intentar un golpe de Estado tras perder las elecciones de 2022 ante el actual presidente, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

El requerimiento se dictó después de que la Policía Federal encontrara en uno de los celulares de Bolsonaro incautados un “documento de 33 páginas” cuya finalidad era solicitar asilo político al gobierno argentino de Javier Milei. El texto, sin fecha ni firma, pero dirigido al presidente argentino, permanecía en el teléfono de Bolsonaro desde 2024, año en que comenzó la investigación por el caso de intento de golpe de Estado.

Según la investigación, los elementos reunidos señalan que Bolsonaro, bajo régimen de prisión domiciliaria, “tenía en su poder un documento que posibilitaría su evasión de Brasil hacia la República Argentina, especialmente tras el inicio de la investigación”. Además, en el escrito, el ex mandatario sostiene que sufre “persecución por motivos y por delitos esencialmente políticos” y alega que vive bajo medidas cautelares desde entonces.

Las autoridades consideran que la autora del archivo con el pedido de asilo sería la esposa del senador Flavio Bolsonaro, hijo del ex presidente. De Moraes incluyó en su resolución que la Policía identificó también “el reiterado incumplimiento” de Bolsonaro a la medida cautelar que prohíbe el uso de sus redes sociales.

Estos hechos integran las conclusiones de la investigación que abarca al propio ex mandatario y a otro de sus hijos, el diputado Eduardo Bolsonaro, por actos de coacción contra el Supremo Tribunal Federal en el juicio por golpismo.

La Policía sostiene que ambos intentaron interferir en el proceso, lo que podría configurar los delitos de coacción y tentativa de abolición del Estado democrático de derecho mediante la restricción de los poderes constitucionales.

De acuerdo con las autoridades, Bolsonaro y su hijo Eduardo, radicado en Estados Unidos desde hace unos seis meses, buscaron “inducir, instigar y ayudar” al gobierno estadounidense de Donald Trump a realizar actos hostiles contra Brasil para lograr el archivamiento de la causa judicial contra el ex mandatario.

Bolsonaro enfrenta un juicio penal ante el Supremo por presuntamente liderar una conspiración con el objetivo de mantenerse en el poder e impedir la asunción de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva después de perder las elecciones generales. De acuerdo con la causa, la instrucción del proceso penal se encuentra en una fase avanzada.

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos endureció el lunes su posición en la disputa abierta con Brasil en torno al juez Alexandre de Moraes. A través de su Oficina de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental, advirtió que “ningún tribunal extranjero puede invalidar las sanciones de Estados Unidos, ni salvar a nadie de las graves consecuencias de violarlas”.

En el mismo mensaje, publicado en X, la oficina añadió: “Alexandre de Moraes es tóxico para todas las empresas legítimas e individuos que buscan acceder a los Estados Unidos y a sus mercados. Personas estadounidenses tienen prohibido realizar transacciones con él, y personas que no son estadounidenses deben actuar con cautela: quienes brinden apoyo material a violadores de derechos humanos enfrentan riesgo de sanciones”.

Con esa advertencia, Washington buscó dejar en claro que sus sanciones tienen efectos extraterritoriales y que el fallo emitido horas antes por el Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) de Brasil no altera el alcance de la legislación estadounidense.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced a transformation of the agency Wednesday that will cut the «bloated» ODNI by more than 40% by the end of the year and save taxpayers more than $700 million annually, all while executing its core national security and intelligence mission «in the most agile, effective, and efficient way.»

Gabbard, on Wednesday, announced what she described as a «long-overdue» transformation, that will refocus ODNI and eliminate offices that were involved in the politicization of intelligence. 

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«Over the last 20 years, ODNI has become bloated and inefficient, and the intelligence community is rife with abuse of power, unauthorized leaks of classified intelligence, and politicized weaponization of intelligence,» Gabbard said. «ODNI and the IC must make serious changes to fulfill its responsibility to the American people and the U.S. Constitution by focusing on our core mission: find the truth and provide objective, unbiased, timely intelligence to the President and policymakers. Ending the weaponization of intelligence and holding bad actors accountable are essential to begin to earn the American people’s trust which has long been eroded.»

Gabbard said that «under President Trump’s leadership, ODNI 2.0 is the start of a new era focused on serving our country, fulfilling our core national security mission with excellence, always grounded in the U.S. Constitution, and ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.» 

ODNI was first created after the 9/11 terror attacks and exposed systemic failures across the intelligence community. ODNI’s purpose was to integrate intelligence from and provide oversight over all intelligence community elements in order to ensure the intelligence provided to the president and policymakers was «timely, accurate, and apolitical.»

«Unfortunately, two decades later, ODNI has fallen short in fulfilling its mandate,» an ODNI spokesperson said.

ODNI 2.0 is set to eliminate «redundant missions, functions and personnel,» and is set to make «critical investments» in areas that support Trump’s national intelligence priorities.

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ODNI officials said that ODNI 2.0 will focus on rebuilding trust, exposing politicization and weaponization of intelligence, holding bad actors accountable, saving American tax dollars, and focusing on their «core mission,» which is to protect «the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.»

As part of the effort, Gabbard is closing ODNI’s Reston Campus and moving the National Intelligence Council to the main ODNI campus, which will ensure the all essential intelligence functions are kept «under one roof,» which officials say will «enable savings,» and will ensure «greater efficiency and oversight, and integration across the ODNI and IC.»

Gabbard is also leading intelligence community-wide reforms for «efficient and effective operations.» Gabbard is expected to issue guidance to create a streamlined contracting authority for companies that pursue emerging technologies, and that are already approved for business with the IC to provide services quickly.

Gabbard is also leading an IC-wide effort to «rebalance and optimize» its civilian and contractor workforce to «reduce bloat, increase analytic capability, remove stovepipes, eradicate politicization and analytic bias, accelerate information sharing, and increase efficiency to ensure mission success,» officials said.

Meanwhile, Gabbard has also ended non-merit-based recruitment of intelligence community professionals.

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As for ODNI components, the National Counterterrorism Center is building capability to increase two-way information sharing between federal, state, and local law enforcement to secure borders and communities.

As for the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, Gabbard is calling for a renewed focus on security clearance reform, deterring counterintelligence threats, and oversight of investigations and probes of unauthorized leaks of classified information.