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International Criminal Court Wins European Union's Top Human Rights Honor

The International Criminal Court has won the Sakharov Prize, the European Union's top human rights honor, according to ABC News and The New York Times.

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ABC News reported in a wire story that the International Criminal Court has won the European Union's "top human rights honor," the Sakharov Prize. The summary of that report repeats the same point and adds no further detail.

The New York Times also reported the award in a story credited to Koba Ryckewaert, headlined International Criminal Court Wins E.U.'s Top Human Rights Prize. According to the newspaper's summary, the win is "a show of support" for the court as the Trump administration moves to thwart its work.

The two accounts agree that the court has won the prize, and the summaries show differences of emphasis rather than differences of fact. ABC News presents the award on its own, while The New York Times places it against the Trump administration's moves to thwart the court's work, a context the ABC News summary does not mention.

Neither summary says how the court or the administration responded to the award, and neither gives details of any ceremony. The reports available for this story do not establish those details, and this account does not supply them.

Both reports identify the Sakharov Prize as the European Union's top human rights award. ABC News lists no author for its item, while The New York Times credits Koba Ryckewaert with its report.

The full texts of both reports were not available for this story, so the summaries described above are the basis for this account.

Sources: ABC News: The International Criminal Court wins the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize.; The New York Times: International Criminal Court Wins E.U.’s Top Human Rights Prize.

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