THE HAGUE,\u00a0Netherlands \u2014\u00a0A key governing body of the International Criminal Court on Monday suspended chief prosecutor Karim Khan as he faces sexual abuse allegations against a member of his office.<\/p>\n
The 21-member bureau of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP) decided to refer Khan’s case to the wider ASP that represents every member country of the ICC.<\/p>\n
The bureau decided “by qualified majority… to suspend the Prosecutor from duty with immediate effect pending the final decision of the Assembly of States Parties as the competent decision-maker,” the body said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The bureau emphasises that this suspension is not an indication of the final outcome,” added the statement.<\/p>\n
The decision will have little practical impact on the functioning of the court, as the 55-year-old Khan stepped aside in May 2025, taking a leave of absence to fight the allegations that he denies.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n He has already been removed from pleading in the ICC’s most high-profile case against former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n A special session of the ASP will be convened as soon as possible to discuss the Khan case, according to the statement.<\/p>\n The 55-year-old Briton hit the headlines when he sucessfully applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant over the Gaza war.<\/p>\n He was among the first to be sanctioned by Israel’s ally, the United States, which expressed outrage over the arrest warrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE,\u00a0Netherlands \u2014\u00a0A key governing body of the International Criminal Court on Monday suspended chief prosecutor Karim Khan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15438,15432,15435,11850,952,15437,15439,15433,276,2924,15430,14486,6,15434,15431,42,15440,15436],"class_list":["post-20241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-hague","tag-asp-special-session","tag-assembly-of-state-parties","tag-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant","tag-gaza-war","tag-hague","tag-icc-functioning","tag-icc-member-countries","tag-icc-prosecutor","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-international-law","tag-karim-khan-suspension","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-netherlands","tag-rodrigo-duterte-case","tag-sexual-abuse-allegations","tag-the-hague","tag-u-s-sanctions","tag-yoav-gallant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}