US sanctions at the International Criminal Court, Nobel Pillay: “Unprecedented and unacceptable”

South African judge Navi Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, called the sanctions recently announced by the United States against the International Criminal Court (ICC) “unprecedented and unacceptable”. «There is so much tension and apprehension regarding the survival of international tribunals, in particular the International Criminal Court in The Hague… But above all, a country has announced sanctions against judges, only for the judicial orders issued by them. It is unprecedented, unacceptable,” said Pillay, speaking via video conference from Nuremberg during an event at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.