{"id":823924,"date":"2026-07-24T21:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823924\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:34:17","slug":"icc-prosecutor-khan-removed-over-politicised-sex-abuse-claims-sources-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823924\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC prosecutor Khan removed over \u2018politicised\u2019 sex abuse claims: Sources | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have voted to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor, according to diplomatic sources.<\/p>\n

Various news agencies reported late on Friday that a majority of the court\u2019s 125 member states voted in favour of the prosecutor\u2019s removal. Khan\u2019s team insists it is a politicised case in reaction to his pursuit of an arrest warrant against Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

The vote, which took place nearly two years after sexual misconduct allegations against Khan first emerged, came amid rising pressure on the ICC.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor oversaw the issue of warrants for top Israeli officials over the war in Gaza and investigations into United States personnel in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has already imposed sanctions on Khan and a dozen other ICC staff in retaliation, and recently declared it would seek to destroy the ICC.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old barrister was accused of sexually harassing a junior colleague who worked as his assistant.<\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s accuser, named only \u2060as Sarah, recently told CNN that Khan had shown escalating behaviour of touching and groping her, recounting a time she said he touched her intimately while she was pretending to be asleep.<\/p>\n

Khan has denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers have called the process that led to the vote unlawful, procedurally unfair and unsupported by evidence.<\/p>\n

The ICC had already suspended Khan<\/a> from his official duties, a decision based on a United Nations investigative report, the advice of an ad hoc panel of judicial experts, and written submissions, according to the ICC\u2019s oversight body.<\/p>\n

Khan was leading probes into multiple conflicts, but his decision in 2024 to seek arrest warrants for Israeli leaders<\/a>, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, prompted an intense backlash from governments and advocacy groups.<\/p>\n

Former European Union chief diplomat Josep Borrell wrote in an editorial that the case against Khan is \u201cobviously part of a larger offensive against the ICC\u201d.<\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s dismissal immediately triggers the election process for a new ICC prosecutor, although a vote is not expected before next \u200cyear.<\/p>\n

His removal will have no immediate impact on the arrest warrants issued in 2024 for Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity, which can only be withdrawn by ICC judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026 Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have voted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-823924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}