The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, will be investigated for sexual assaults against a member of his team, announced the supervisory body of the judicial institution, reported BNR.
The 54-year-old British lawyer denies the charges, but accepts the decision as an opportunity to clear his name. The investigation will be external and Khan will continue to work on his investigations.
In May of this year, he asked the court in The Hague to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Galant, as well as leaders of "Hamas" to be tried for war crimes.< /p>
Khan previously issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
An Anglican bishop has called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign, calling his position "untenable" after a damning report about a very dangerous child abuser connected to the church that he ignored.
Archbishop Justin Welby is facing mounting pressure to resign after it emerged last week that he did not follow up closely enough on reports of “shocking abuse” by John Smith above more than 100 boys and young men.
A review of church records concludes that he “could and should” to report the case to the authorities to whom the details were provided in 2013. The Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley is the most senior member of the church to call on Justin Welby to step down after others accused him of “allowing the abuse to continue” between 2013 and Smith's death in 2018.
Last week, Welby admitted that the review made it clear that he had “personally failed to investigate the matter in a timely manner” and added that he considered resigning but decided to stay in his post. A petition by church officials calling on the archbishop to resign has already gathered more than 7,000 signatures. Smith is believed to be the worst serial abuser linked to the Church of England, having physically, sexually and psychologically abused around 130 victims. He did this for nearly five decades in three countries, primarily targeting boys who attended summer camps for young Christians that he ran.
Activists against anti-Semitism staged protests outside universities in London against the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories over claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese, an international lawyer specializing in human rights and the Middle East, took part in an event at the London School of Economics and Political Science last night.
She recently published a report claiming that Israel is not just committing war crimes or crimes against humanity in Gaza, but “genocide”, and suggested that the UN consider expelling Israel as a member state.
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield wrote on social media that Albanese was unfit for the post, adding: “The United Nations should not tolerate anti-Semitism from a UN-affiliated official employed to promote human rights”.< /p>
Albanese, for her part, said she was right to insist on the term “genocide”, pointing out that “Palestinians have been victims of war crimes all their lives, but now it is different. She accepted that the definition of Genocide is complicated by the need to prove intent, but claims that Israel's intent was to destroy the Palestinians.
Protesters from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism chanted: “Francesca Albanese not welcome in British universities”.