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Little Known Facts about the newly elected ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday elected Karim Khan as the prosecutor. Khan won the position after trouncing three other candidates. He will replace the Gambian lawyer, Fatou Bensouda, and is set to serve for a period of nine years. 
Khan’s predecessor at the ICC was slapped with US sanctions after he launched probe that included US war crimes against Afghanistan. The administration of Joe Biden has not indicated whether it will reverse Trump’s sanctions against the ICC officials.
Khan is well acclaimed for heading the United Nation’s special probe team that was investigating the Islamic State crimes in Iraq. He had been appointed by UN secretary general Antonio Guterres as a special UN envoy to investigate the conduct of ISIS. 
He is a Queens Counsel who has defended many suspects at The Hague based Court. He was among the lawyers who represented Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, at The Hague after he was accused of criminal offences that was triggered after the 2007 general elections. 
He was also the lead counsel for former head of public service, Francis Muthaura, at the ICC in relation to 2007 post-election violence (PEV). The 2007 post-election violence in Kenya saw the indictment of six Kenyans. President Uhuru Kenyatta was among those who were accused.
Khan is a British barrister who has specialized in international human rights law and international criminal law. He represented the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam.

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