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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by monocasa on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:37PM (#30689164)
> Additionally, sovereign states are already free to prosecute anyone within their borders.

Not without being invaded by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prot...

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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by teakettle42 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @02:50PM (#30689364)
That act refers only to the ICC, which is not a sovereign state and only prosecutes cases that the sovereign states are themselves unwilling to prosecute.
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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by monocasa on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:28PM (#30690138)
> That act refers only to the ICC, which is not a sovereign state

The ICC only has authority in territories where a sovereign state grants them authority. Hence the act, a threat to invade a sovereign state if that sovereign state follows the legal process they've legally decided (by signing the Rome statute) and prosecute an American citizen

> and only prosecutes cases that the sovereign states are themselves unwilling to prosecute.

Cases that the sovereign state defers to the ICC as their established legal process.

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