Allegations | Pakistan

Allegations of sexual misconduct against the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are still under review by the court’s executive branch, an internal memo shared with staff on Sunday said, after a media report that he had been exonerated. ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, who investigates war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, has stepped aside temporarily pending an investigation into accusations of a non-consensual sexual relationship with a lawyer in his office. He rejects allegations of wrongdoing. After a year-long investigation, the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services submitted its confidential fact-finding report in December to the ICC’s executive branch, known as the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties. A Saturday news report by Middle East Eye said Khan had been cleared of the allegations. But in a memo to court staff, which Reuters reviewed, the Assembly’s President Paivi Kaukoranta said: “The disciplinary process before the Bureau is ongoing and remains confident...