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While the United States passes a bill which includes the rescinding the entry visas of the jailers of the Philippine Senator Leila Delima, it has also already taken the step to cancel the entry visa of one of the prosecutors of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).
Manila, Philippines - According to Reuters, the US government has revoked the entry visa of the ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda on December 19 in response to her presumptuous inquiry of the allegations of crimes committed by the US forces in Afghanistan. It was reported before that the US government will take necessary steps which they finally did if ICC prosecutors would pursue such investigation.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has already warned last month that they would withdraw the entry visas of the ICC stuff investigating the allegations against the US forces and their allies or even possible arrest.
The United Nations human rights experts have denounced the reaction of the United States government and referred to it as " improper interfere " in the work of the world's permanent war crime court. It also drew reactions with in the European Union.
This is ironic in both ways. The United States government resents foreign organizations that intervene to it's political affairs and takes necessary actions to what it considers as meddling yet they intervene in other political issues of other nations. Philippines and Hong Kong are some of the good example. On November 27, the US has made the Hong Kong human rights and democracy act in relation to the violations of human rights of the prodemocracy protesters committed by the Hong Kong police. Now, they are creating a bill that includes the cancellation of the US entry visas of the jailers of Senator Leila Delima who was involved in the illegal drug trade within the Manila city penitentiary.
On the other hand, Fatou Bensouda is the same ICC prosecutor who is being condemned by the Philippine government for pursuing silimilar inquiry to the allegations of extra judicial killings in relation to the war against drugs being carried out by President Duterte's administration that earned an overwhelming satisfaction rating of almost 80 percent of the Filipino citizens based on the latest survey.
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