The International Criminal Court, Sakharov Prize for freedom of conscience of the European Parliament

This Thursday, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize for freedom of conscience to the International Criminal Court and its workers, pressured by threats from the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who has imposed sanctions against its judges and prosecutors, two parliamentary sources told EFE.

At the beginning of October, the North American Government announced new sanctions against the ICC just after the Nobel Peace committee awarded the prize to a former judge of that organization, the South African Navi Pillay. Washington announced it through its Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, ensuring that Trump "will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans" and threatening to "dismantle" the international organization "brick by brick" if it does not "end its threats."