Danish ex-foreign minister ‘shocked’ by Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay
Per Stig Møller says the former UN human rights chief advocated censorship during the Muhammad cartoons crisis
Assessment
A former Danish foreign minister publicly questions the credibility of a Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a UN human rights chief who, he argues, sided with censorship during a free speech crisis. The criticism revives an old fault line between Western free expression norms and international human rights frameworks. How the Nobel committee responds, if at all, will shape the prize's perceived neutrality.