À une écrasante majorité : le procureur en chef de la Cour pénale internationale de La Haye a été destitué
Le procureur général de la Cour internationale de justice de La Haye, Karim Khan, a été destitué de ses fonctions ce samedi à la suite d'un vote parmi les États membres. Le vote a eu…
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has been removed by a vote of member states following allegations of sexual assault against a subordinate. The removal carries heavy political weight because Khan had issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the Gaza war. The outcome signals that the court's member states were willing to act decisively on internal misconduct allegations against a prosecutor who had taken on high-profile cases. Watch for how this affects the status of those arrest warrants and whether a new prosecutor will revisit or drop them.