The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, is set to address the Oxford Union next week, Middle East Eye can reveal.
The event will mark Khan's first public address since he went on extended leave last May pending the outcome of a United Nations investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, all of which he has denied.
Last month, MEE reported that a panel of judges appointed by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC’s governing body, to review the UN investigation had concluded it had not established any "misconduct or breach of duty" by Khan.
But the chief prosecutor has still not returned to his duties. MEE later reported that a group of disproportionately western and European states voted at a bureau meeting to disregard the panel of judges and make their own assessment, based on the UN report.
Khan's legal team has called on the ASP bureau to accept the judges' findings and has expressed concern that "political considerations" rather than legal process are shaping its deliberations.
