International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan walked with Asaad al-Shaibani, right, in Damascus, Syria, in 2025. Khan has been suspended from the British bar over sexual misconduct allegations. File Photo by SANA/UPI. | License Photo
June 19 (UPI) -- Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has been suspended by Britain's Bar Standards Board for alleged sexual misconduct.
Khan, 56, was already suspended from duty by the ICC on June 9 for the allegations.
Khan had been working toward the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes during Israel's war in Gaza. Khan is a British citizen.
He is accused of trying to silence a woman who accused him of sexual assault. She was a former aide. He allegedly told her that the case against him would jeopardize his work for Palestinian victims.
