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Karim A. A. Khan

International prosecutor · United Kingdom / The Hague

Affiliated with International Criminal Court (ICC)

Judicial — binding rulings

ICC Prosecutor (2021–); applied for arrest warrants over Oct 7 and Gaza conduct. Suspended in 2026 pending a misconduct vote — deputies lead the Office in his absence.

Financing

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Money source

ICC assessed contributions from states parties.

Institutional alignment

Head of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor; previously served as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor and led UNITAD.

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Disclosures & conflicts

Suspended as ICC Prosecutor in 2026 pending an Assembly of States Parties vote on alleged misconduct — deputies lead the Office in his absence. Previously led UNITAD's Yazidi genocide investigation before becoming Prosecutor. Warrant applications in the Palestine situation are contested by Israel, the US, and others.

Credibility & caveats

Binding only through ICC processes, which depend on state cooperation; his personal conduct is separately under institutional review.

On the record

Verbatim quotations in this project attributed to this person.

  • “UNITAD has established clear and convincing evidence that genocide was committed by ISIL against the Yazidi as a religious group. The intent of ISIL to destroy the Yazidi, physically and biologically, is manifest in its ultimatum ... to convert or die.”

    Case: yazidi →

  • “I have reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya SINWAR, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim AL-MASRI (DEIF), and Ismail HANIYEH bear criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of Israel.”

    Case: october 7 israelis 2023 →

  • “The Office is actively investigating allegations of killings, rapes and other crimes in Darfur, including in West Darfur, in the context of the current conflict.”

    Case: sudan 2023 →

How this source is used

This profile is used to weigh publishers, investigators, officials, or source material cited inside case evidence. It may not itself issue a genocide determination for a case. See the methodology for the source-weighting rules.

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