Karim Khan’s bid for arrest warrants is pivotal moment for international court
Karim Khan’s time as prosecutor at the International Criminal Court looked set to be defined by his probe into Russia’s war in Ukraine. But, he recently confided to a friend, he came to realise his most lasting legacy would be forged in the Middle East. The announcement from Khan this week that the ICC was seeking arrest warrants against leaders of both Israel and Hamas sent shockwaves through the region — the first time that The Hague court has pursued the leader of a western-backed state.
His innovations as prosecutor have included appointing 17 “eminent experts” with “cultural, linguistic and gender diversity”, including human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, to serve as special advisers. Advisers were given portfolios that included crimes of aggression, gender persecution and genocide. Khan, who has Pakistani heritage, was inspired to pursue a human rights career by the atrocities of the 1990s Balkans conflict after seeing them on television, he told Counsel magazine in 2021.
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