ICC Fast-Tracks Removal Of Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan: Report – The Cradle

 ICC Fast-Tracks Removal Of Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan: Report

The new framework drops traditional safeguards as Khan faces punitive US sanctions over arrest warrants issued against Israeli officials

The executive body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has overhauled its internal protocol and “lowered the threshold” for the potential dismissal of Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, Middle East Eye (MEE) reported on 3 July.

During a meeting on Monday, the bureau approved a transition from a two-stage voting process to a single vote. Under the previous framework, the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute first had to determine whether misconduct occurred by a two-thirds majority, before a separate removal vote requiring an absolute majority of 63 votes could be triggered.

Lawyers from the London-based firm Carter-Ruck, representing Khan, stated they were not notified of the change, and noted the decision deviates from the bureau’s own written procedures.

“It removes the Assembly’s separate and prior determination, under rule 29, of whether serious misconduct occurred at all,” the lawyers told MEE.

They added that the move “reduces the threshold for a finding of serious misconduct from the two-thirds majority provided in that procedure to a bare absolute majority.”

🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle

Related: 6/11 — ❗️Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is attempting to divert attention from sexual misconduct allegations involving former chief prosecutor Karim Khan by “making up” war crime “accusations” against Israel.

9/6/24 — ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him Over Israel Arrest Warrants

8/25 — ICC Prosecutor Calls For Urgent Ruling On Arrest Warrants For Israeli And Hamas Officials

7/10 — Netanyahu Cancelled His Visit to Hungary and the Czech Republic Due to Fears of Arrest by ICC

7/9 — Netanyahu Responds to ICC Prosecutor Issuing Arrest Warrants Against Him For War Crimes [Denies denying water from civilian population of Gaza]

6/6 – Was October 7th Allowed to Happen To Further The Greater Israel Agenda? Did The Hannibal Directive Ever End? [X] — Part 4 of TheMcgwire’s Oct 7th Intelligence Stand Down series

6/5 — ‘We Do Not Recognize the ICC’: Joe Biden

6/4 — US House of Representatives passes bill to sanction ICC officials for pursuing arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.

❗️ 5/30 — Haaretz reporter had the story of the Mossad chief threatening the top ICC prosecutor but Israeli authorities said if he published, he’d “suffer the consequences and get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside.“

❗️ 5/28 — Ex Mossad Chief ‘Stalked, Threatened’ ICC Official To Drop Israel War Crimes Probe

5/21 — ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israeli and Hamas Leaders

5/7 — Republican Senators Threaten ICC: ‘Target Israel and We Will Target You’

4/31 — Congress Threatens ICC

4/26 — Netanyahu on ICC: “We Will Not Bow To It”

Flashback: “We Know Where Your Kids Live”: How John Bolton Once Threatened An International Official [Bustani, Head of OPCW, For Offering To Inspect Saddam’s Facilities for WMD’s]

Follow us on Minds / X / Substack

Boost This Channel

Follow ➡️ @PsyopDaily

READ FULL ARTICLE: This article originally appeared on The Cradle

Share on Telegram