The British Karim Khan was elected as the new fiscal of the International Criminal Court

The British lawyer specializing in human rights Karim Khan was elected this year as the fiscal close of the International Criminal Court. Khan alzó con la victoria al obtener en una segunda votajon 72 of the 122 cases issued by the member states of the tribunal on a contingent that the median with other three candidates from Ireland, Italy and Spain.

None of them won a first ballot, but Khan took the ballot with 59 votes. An absolute majority of at least 62 is required to declare a winner.

In this way, the letter of 50 years succeeds in June to the Gambian Fatou Bensouda, which occupied the cargo from June 2012 when he was sued by Argentine Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Khan recently conducted a special investigation by the UN on the crimes of the Islamic State group and pleaded guilty to its juvenile offenses such as the Nazi assassinations in Nuremberg. Currently working as General Secretary of the United Nations.

Have your experience before this type of international agency: it has been invoked for reasons judged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (TPIY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (TPIR), the Special Halls of the Courts of Cambodia, el Tribunal Special para Sierra Leone, el Tribunal Spesiale para el Lebanon, y la misma Corte Penal Internacional, entre otros.

It is also represented as the Recorder (Master of Partial Time) of the Superior Tribunal of England and Wales, and previously provided services such as the Fiscal Principal of the Corona in London and the Commission of the Law of England and Wales. Since 2011 we have also been serving as Councilor of the Reina Isabel II.

Bensouda will end his term of office for the first time in one of the most complicated cases of international justice. Deja has a balanced balance in the court of La Haya. Its successor will be converted into the fiscal third of the Court since it was created in 2002. There will be mileage and landlords in a court of law with constant doubt.

Under its main challenges, we will challenge the decision on as we take the next steps in the investigation of the war crimes in Afghanistan and in the controversy over the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 2014 in the Gaza Strip. Last week, the juveniles of the CPI declared that the court was competent to deal with high-profile attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which led the truck to a war crimes investigation.

Last year, the governor of former President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Bensouda and the other high official of the CPI – as a prohibition on travel and the association of his activities – by an investigation into alleged war crimes.

The governor of the new state president, Joe Biden, has not indicated he will hand over the sanctions against Bensouda, quien las considera “unacceptable”.

Unbalanced mixture

Bensouda deja puesto tras a balanced balance, although, according to some experts, has increased the CPI rate.

During his tenure, the President of Costa de Marfil Laurent Gbagbo Absolute crime against humanity and the former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba fue absuelto en apelación.

También abandons the charges of crimes against humanitarian retention against the Kenyan Uhuru Kenyatta.

Sondeverbod Bensouda obtuvo condenas contra Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan soldier converted into Commander of the Senate Resistance (a rebel group) and against the congressional warlord Bosco Ntaganda.

The CPI is the permanent tribunal with jurisdiction to adjudicate world war crimes. It’s being criticized by the central government in cases where Tuvieron lives in African countries.

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