{"id":23666,"date":"2026-10-10T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/richard-bennett-calls-for-us-sanctions-on-icc-to-be-lifted\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:14:15","slug":"richard-bennett-calls-for-us-sanctions-on-icc-to-be-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/richard-bennett-calls-for-us-sanctions-on-icc-to-be-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Expert Calls for US Sanctions on ICC to Be Lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called for the immediate lifting of US government sanctions on the International Criminal Court, saying the pressure should not disrupt the review of Afghanistan\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Saturday, 18 Mizan, Bennett said he agrees with Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in condemning the sanctions and urged Washington to lift all announced measures against the court without delay.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that he supports the International Criminal Court\u2019s investigation into the situation in Afghanistan and expressed confidence that the inquiry will continue and that US sanctions will not prevent its progress.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Volker Turk also described the US government\u2019s sanctions against the International Criminal Court as &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and called for their removal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bennett calls for the immediate lifting of US sanctions on the International Criminal Court over its Afghanistan investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}