Democratic chair of US Senate foreign affairs c’tee urges ICC to probe top prosecutor

Democratic Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, who chairs the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calls for the ICC to investigate sexual misconduct allegations against its top prosecutor Karim Khan.

“Until a thorough administrative investigation into the allegations of misconduct is concluded and necessary actions are taken, there is a shadow cast on the prosecutor’s own investigations. I urge the bodies of the ICC to take action under their authorities to remove any doubt, and to weigh their deliberations carefully,” Cardin says in a statement.

“It is no secret that I find the application for arrest warrants against Israeli officials inconsistent with the ICC’s principle of complementarity, and such inconsistency undermines its own efforts to promote and uphold the rule of law globally,” Cardin adds.