Nobel Prize winner Pillay, 'US sanctions on the ICC are 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 about the survival of international tribunals, particularly the International Criminal Court in The Hague... But above all, a country has announced sanctions against judges, just for the judicial orders they issue. This is unprecedented, unacceptable," Pillay said via video conference from Nuremberg during an event at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.