Exclusive: 'Handful' of ICC states aim to sabotage report clearing Karim Khan

A minority of members from the bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are calling for the findings of a judges' report, which found no evidence of misconduct against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, to be ignored, Middle East Eye can reveal.

MEE reported exclusively on Saturday that the court’s chief prosecutor had been cleared of any wrongdoing by a panel of three senior judges appointed by the bureau of the ASP, the ICC’s governing body, to review the findings of a United Nations investigation into complaints of alleged sexual misconduct.

MEE has since obtained a copy of the panel’s confidential report. The panel, composed of two male judges and one female judge, ruled unanimously that the UN’s Office for Internal Oversight Services' (OIOS) investigation had not established any "misconduct or breach of duty" by Khan.

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