Karim Asad Ahmad Khan is a British lawyer who specialises in international criminal law and international human rights law Britain’s Karim Khan was sworn on Wednesday as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), facing huge challenges, including investigations into the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and the Philippines. Fifty-one-year-old Khan, a former defence lawyer for the … Read more
Karim Khan is said to be in pole position for a nine-year term as prosecutor ahead of Carlos Castresana of Spain The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) member countries are set to elect a new chief prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal, a gruelling post whose current holder is under US sanctions. Four candidates from Britain, … Read more
Amnesty International has lauded the planned probe of the Nigerian military by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Eko Hot Blog had reported that the Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda on Friday called for an inquiry into the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity especially in Nigeria’s Northeast by the military. In a statement … Read more
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has called for the commencement of a formal investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nigeria. This follows a decade-long investigation into violence in the Northeast involving Boko Haram insurgents. According to the BBC, Bensouda said the vast majority of crimes were by … Read more