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

Sexual abuse claims have dragged the international criminal court into crisis – but what happens now?

Karim Khan looks to the left as someone he is speaking to gestures towards him
Defenders of Karim Khan have claimed that the allegations are part of a smear campaign in response to him seeking arrest warrants against the Israeli prime minister. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

Behind the closed doors of a large room at the international criminal court’s fortress-like headquarters in The Hague, senior diplomats who oversee the court have been gathering each week to try to resolve a crisis.

On their agenda: the fate of the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, a British lawyer whose tenure at the court was thrown into disarray nearly two years ago by sexual abuse allegations that he denies.

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