{"id":501208,"date":"2026-06-19T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501208\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:29:09","slug":"karim-khan-suspended-in-britain-over-alleged-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501208\/","title":{"rendered":"Karim Khan suspended in Britain over alleged sexual misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-899641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Britain<\/a>&#8216;s Bar Standards Board said on Friday it had imposed an interim suspension of Karim Khan, who had been the International Criminal Court&#8217;s chief prosecutor before he was suspended by the court on June 8 over sexual misconduct accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Under the BSB&#8217;s Enforcement Regulations, the interim suspension must now be considered by an Interim Suspension Panel at a hearing within the next four weeks,&#8221; the board said, adding that the suspension was effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Khan, 56, denies the allegations made against him.<\/p>\n<p>A diplomatic source briefed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC<\/a>&#8216;s decision to suspend Khan<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-898799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> told Reuters<\/a> the court&#8217;s governing body&#8217;s executive bureau has ruled that he had committed serious misconduct following an 18-month-long probe into accusations that the prosecutor had non-consensual sexual interactions with a lawyer in his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The source added that the bureau has recommended that the prosecutor be removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-897034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC<\/a>&#8216;s governing body will send its conclusion on to all 125 ICC member states, which will vote on Khan&#8217;s fate in a special session convened at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8216;s Bar Standards Board said on Friday it had imposed an interim suspension of Karim Khan, who had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5355,4784,85,14752,46,43,88911],"class_list":["post-501208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-britain","tag-icc","tag-il","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sexual-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}