US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after Nobel Peace award to former judge

The US Trump administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The move came hours after a former ICC judge, Navi Pillay, won the Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Nobel Committee, Pillay was chosen as institutions of international law are under political attack.

Pillay, an 85-year-old South African judge, served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the 1990s and recently chaired the United Nations Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry. The Commission determined that a genocide was taking place in Gaza, as per Le Monde English.

The US Treasury Department added the entire ICC to its Specially Designated Nationals list, imposing financial punishment on any entity that does business with the ICC. The Trump administration has long accused the court of unfairly targeting the US and Israel. The sanctions were condemned by the ICC's deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, who said they would not halt the tribunal's work.

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