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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harry Davies Investigations correspondent

ICC judges order that arrest warrant requests in Palestine case be kept secret

Karim Khan.
Court sources said they expected Karim Khan’s new applications to focus on alleged crimes in the West Bank. Photograph: Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters

The prosecutor of the international criminal court has been restrained from publicising any new applications for arrest warrants in the court’s Palestine case after judges ordered they must be kept secret, the Guardian has learned.

In an order issued behind closed doors this month, ICC judges are understood to have told the prosecutor, Karim Khan, he can no longer make public announcements referring to the existence of his applications for arrest warrants or his intention to seek them.

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