The State Department said Thursday that it would freeze any assets that the ICC judges, who come from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda, have in U.S. jurisdictions.

The Trump administration issued sanctions against four International Criminal Court (ICC) judges, citing “illegitimate and baseless actions” targeting the U.S.

WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE >> President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by U.