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US revokes visa for ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda

International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda. US government has revoked her visa and her office insists she will continue to do her duties without fear or favour. [File, Standard]

The United States has revoked the entry visa of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, her office said on Thursday, a response to her inquiry into possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Bensouda is something of a household name in Kenya for her prosecution of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto whose crimes-against-humanity-charges the court dropped in December 2014. She had inherited the case from Luis Moreno Ocampo.

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