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Exclusive: ICC member states to vote on Karim Khan probe in New York on 24 July
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Two-thirds of the 125 members of the court need to vote on whether the prosecutor is guilty of misconduct
In this file photo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan greets people as he arrives for a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on 13 July 2023 in New York City (AFP)
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Member states of the International Criminal Court are due to convene in New York on 24 July for a consequential vote on the disciplinary proceedings involving Prosecutor Karim Khan, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Multiple diplomatic sources have confirmed that the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the governing body of the court, decided on Wednesday the date and place of the special session to allow the 125 members of the ICC to vote on misconduct allegations facing the prosecutor.
The bureau, a political body, suspended Khan on 8 June by a qualified majority after disregarding a judicial panel's opinion that found no evidence of misconduct against him.
The ASP is the competent decision-maker on voting on a final determination of the misconduct allegations and whether to remove him from office. States are asked to vote on whether Khan committed serious misconduct, less serious misconduct or no misconduct at all.
In its confidential decision, seen by MEE, a two-thirds majority of bureau members present and voting recommended a finding of “serious misconduct”, paving the way for a vote at the larger ASP which first needs to uphold the decision, then vote on whether to remove the prosecutor.
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According to the ASP's current rules, any finding of misconduct would require the approval of a two-thirds majority of the states present and voting at the ASP.
If the ASP votes to find serious misconduct, it would then hold a second vote on whether to remove the prosecutor.
A vote to remove Khan would require an absolute majority of the 125-member ASP (63 votes).
5,000 pages of evidence
Allegations of sexual misconduct, which Khan has strenuously denied, emerged in May 2024. The complainant refused to cooperate with the ICC’s own investigative body, prompting the ASP to commission an outsourced UN-led investigation.
Both the complainant and Khan cooperated with the UN investigation.
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For more than a year, UN investigators were tasked with gathering and weighing evidence against Khan to enable the panel of judges appointed by the bureau to provide authoritative legal advice on whether the prosecutor had committed misconduct, applying the standard of proof “beyond reasonable doubt”.
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On 11 December, they submitted their 150-page report and 5,000 pages of evidence to the panel. The judges then spent nearly three months examining the OIOS probe until they reached their conclusion in March.
In a report seen by MEE, the panel concluded unanimously that the facts presented in the UN investigation “do not establish misconduct or breach of duty under the relevant framework”.
The investigation has left the court in an unprecedented state of limbo amid uncertainty about Khan's future and media leaks about the allegations he faced.
Legal experts have warned that the bureau's disregard for the judges' opinion risks politicising the misconduct probe.
The allegations against Khan have unfolded in parallel with a campaign by the US and its allies to disrupt his office's efforts to pursue a war crimes investigation into Israeli officials over the genocide in Gaza.
Khan, a British barrister, was elected in February 2021 by the ASP as the ICC’s chief prosecutor. He is the third person to hold that position since the court’s founding in 2002.
His office has since investigated serious international crimes allegedly committed by state leaders from across the world, including seeking arrest warrants for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Myanmar’s junta leaders and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
His work has prompted retaliatory US sanctions by the Trump administration in February 2025, as well as a trial in absentia and an arrest warrant issued by Russian courts. The US, Russia and Israel are not members of the court, but it has jurisdiction over crimes committed by their nationals on the territory of ICC member states.
The sanctions were later expanded to target two deputy prosecutors and eight ICC judges involved in the Palestine and Afghanistan investigations, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, as well as Palestinian NGOs that provided evidence to the court.
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Israel 'will be at war with Syria sooner or later', says Likud minister
An Israeli minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party said this week that Israel “will be at war with Syria sooner or later”.
The remarks came in a series of radio interviews given by Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli on Wednesday and Thursday, in which he outlined what he dubbed a "radical Sunni axis of evil" in the Middle East.
“There is no way that a jihadist regime rooted in Isis and al-Qaeda, whose aspiration is the unification of Jerusalem, can live in peace alongside the State of Israel,” the far-right minister said, referring to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government.
Speaking to Israel’s Army Radio on Thursday, Chikli outlined what he considers to be a new anti-Israel alliance made up of Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, which he said worried him far more than Iran and its ceasefire deal with the US.
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Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli (R) sits beside Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, as they attend a conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem on 27 March 2025 (AFP)