Panel appointed by war crimes court’s governing body says UN probe has not established any ‘misconduct or breach of duty’ by chief prosecutor

Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has been cleared of all wrongdoing by a panel of judges appointed to review the findings of a United Nations investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal.

The highly confidential report by the panel of three judges was submitted to the ICC’s executive oversight body, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), on 9 March. It will not be made publicly available, and has not been seen by the majority of the court’s 125 member states.

Since December, the judges, who were appointed by the ASP, have been examining an external fact-finding report conducted by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) into the allegations against Khan, which have unfolded in parallel with his office’s efforts to pursue a war crimes investigation against Israeli officials over the war in Gaza.

  • Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    The charges against him were obviously Israel trying to get him discredited. He had brought arrest warrants against the Israeli leaders earlier in the year.

    You can read a great long form article from before then about the tactics they were using against his office, especially in light at the charges he was bringing (relating to the genocide and the many crimes against humanity Israel were committing) -

    https://archive.ph/83wqp

  • Greyghoster@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    5 hours ago

    This one is ripe for conspiracy theories. Is this a boys clubs covering up for a mate? Is it spurious charges brought to discredit him?