“The U.S. declared retired International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda "persona non grata" for "inventing" human rights violations.”
What Vera Files found
Economic sanctions and visa restrictions were imposed on Bensouda during the administration of former U.S. president Donald Trump in September 2020. But these were lifted in April 2021 under the term of his successor, Joe Biden. The sanctions were placed by the Trump administration becausethe ICC supposedly had no jurisdiction to investigate or prosecute U.S. personnel, not because Bensouda "concocted" cases against the U.S. as Gadon had claimed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Larry Gadon (lawyer) made this claim around 18 June 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 30 June 2021, 12 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Larry Gadon has 17 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=149872637202883
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.