{"id":835970,"date":"2026-07-30T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:41:14","slug":"ottawa-supports-ousting-icc-prosecutor-karim-khan-but-wont-say-how-it-voted-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835970\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa supports ousting ICC prosecutor Karim Khan but won&#8217;t say how it voted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Ottawa says it supports the decision by International Criminal Court members to oust prosecutor Karim Khan, but won\u2019t say whether Canada voted.<\/p>\n<p>Global Affairs Canada says it supports the outcome of last Friday\u2019s vote, in which 82 of the global court\u2019s 125 voting members opted to oust Khan, who rejects allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli government has claimed that Khan sought to rush an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, to distract from Khan\u2019s allegations, which officials have denied.<\/p>\n<p>International law experts such as Kenneth Roth have said the warrant remains in place and was issued through an independent process involving multiple officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands and France have said they voted in support of ousting Khan in the vote, which was conducted under secret ballot.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether Canada voted in support or against removing Khan, Global Affairs Canada said it \u201csupports the outcome\u201d in a statement that didn\u2019t confirm whether or not Ottawa had cast a ballot. \u2028<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ottawa.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778352312_74_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Ottawa says it supports the decision by International Criminal Court members to oust prosecutor Karim Khan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,713,47,20739,714,715],"class_list":["post-835970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835970","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=835970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}