TY - JOUR ID - 79366 TI - Prosecuting Economic Sanctions as Crimes against Humanity JO - Public Law Studies Quarterly JA - JPLSQ LA - en SN - 2423-8120 AU - Zakerhossein, Mohamamd Hadi AD - Assistant Professor, department of criminal law and criminology, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 51 IS - 2 SP - 575 EP - 594 KW - International Criminal Court KW - Sanction KW - Inhumane Acts KW - human rights KW - Right to Health DO - 10.22059/jplsq.2020.301349.2398 N2 - Referral of the US sanctions situation by the government of Venezuela to the International Criminal Court poses the question of whether economic sanctions may fall within the ICC jurisdiction as crimes against humanity. It is the first time that the issue of sanctions is brought before an international criminal tribunal and therefore the response could not be found in the jurisprudence. Nevertheless, by analyzing the law and practice of the Court this article proves that the category of other inhumane acts as referred to in Paragraph K of Article 7 of the Rome Statute include those economic sanctions that cause great suffering and serious harm to the health of any civilian population, provided that are carried out in furtherance of a State policy against ordinary people. In establishing this proposal, the US sanctions against Iran is analyzed as a case. UR - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_79366.html L1 - https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_79366_652f21927bb42d954584bbb822dd38c9.pdf ER -