🇿🇦 Navi Pillay Nobel award coincides with US sanctions on ICC

South African jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 9 October, and hours later the administration of US President Donald Trump announced institution-wide sanctions on the International Criminal Court. According to Africa Confidential, the measures target US dollar payments and accounts held by staff, as well as cloud services and insurance policies, and include a six-month wind-down period for US business dealings with the court. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctions were intended to defend US sovereignty.

Pillay, a former judge at the ICC from 2003 to 2008 and ex-president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, became the fifth South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. European Union member states said they would defend the court against the US sanctions.

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