ICC judge calls US pressure ‘most blatant attack on the court’ – interview

LRT English · 2026-10-14 05:00:00

Almost immediately after former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay was announced as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Donald Trump’s administration struck the Court with sweeping sanctions. For ICC judge Kimberly Prost, however, the pressure from Washington is nothing new: the Canadian judge has been under personal US sanctions for more than a year. “This is a pretty extraordinary attack on the court,” she tells LRT.lt in an exclusive interview.