ICC prosecutor Khan co-authored essay saying defendants can’t get fair shake at world court: report

JERUSALEM - The British chief prosecutor Karim Khan for the International Criminal Court published an academic essay in 2013 that suggested his effort to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be a travesty of justice because the court cannot provide due process to defendants. The Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute located Khan’s essay, which was published by Duke University’s Law School, and analyzed key elements of the academic paper.

In 2007, Khan was also on the verge of being held in contempt by the ICC during his representation of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was accused of carrying out war crimes in Sierra Leone. The presiding judge warned Khan at the time that 'your code of conduct cannot override a court order which I made a few minutes ago,' and the court 'directed Khan to sit down.

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