Sanctions foreign persons who help the ICC pursue Americans or citizens of U.S. allies

§1What it does

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The bill would require the President to impose sanctions on foreign people and organizations that take part in or materially help efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute protected persons.^2,3,4 Protected persons would include Americans, U.S. organizations and anyone in the United States, unless the U.S. joins the court's founding treaty and formally accepts its jurisdiction, as well as citizens and residents of NATO members and major non-NATO allies that have not joined the treaty or accepted the court's jurisdiction.^3,4 Sanctions would freeze the U.S. property of those involved and of entities they own or control and deny them visas, and their immediate family members would also be denied visas.³ It would also cancel all funds already appropriated for the ICC and bar future federal funding for the court.³

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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