US sanctions the International Criminal Court hours after a former judge wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Pillay, 85, sat on the court’s Appeals Chamber from 2003 to 2008, presided over the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014 Donald Trump’s administration on Friday imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court as an institution, hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former judge of the court, “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”.

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