DW
Britain’s Karim Khan has been elected as the next chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He will take over from Fatou Bensouda, who was hit with US sanctions last year.
Member states of the International Criminal Court on Friday elected British human rights lawyer Karim Khan as the new chief prosecutor.
Khan is scheduled to start his nine-year term on June 16.
The 50-year-old barrister is known for being at the helm of a special UN investigation into crimes by the Islamic State, during which he put his weight behind a trial similar to the Nuremberg trials for Nazi war criminals.
In a career that spans over 27 years, Khan — who is also a Queen’s Counsel — has worked for almost every international criminal tribunal in prosecution and defense roles, as well as counsel for victims.
