Anna Holligan

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Global News Podcast · ICC chief prosecutor dismissed over sexual misconduct claims · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

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quite a dignified exit at that time.

I think what happened is the process got prolonged.

It turned into sort of a very litigious process with the prosecutor going to the media, with lawyers getting involved, with civil society being fractured.

And for two years, this completely polarized the assembly of states parties and civil society organizations.

And we saw Twitter battles happening.

And so I think today the Assembly of States parties had to make a very tough decision about what is needed to provide the unity that this court needs to survive going forward in the face of aggression from Washington and Moscow.

This is an unprecedented moment in the ICC's history, a time when the court has already been under intense scrutiny.

So this was a meeting of the Assembly of States Parties, 125 member states of the ICC at the UN's headquarters in New York.

Out of those 125 members, 82 voted in favour of dismissing Karim Khan.

And in a brief statement at the end of the meeting, you heard there from the ASP president, she said that the ICC staff had been working through this uncertainty.

She praised their navigation and dedication.

and said they demonstrated resolve to continue to function and discharge critical mandate and support victims of atrocity crimes the world over.

But it's impossible to separate this court from the actions of its top prosecutor.

And that's something now that supporters of the court are desperately battling with in the hope that this will enable them

to draw some kind of line under the investigations which have been happening.

So the allegations first emerged in 2024.

These allegations centred on claims that he had sexually harassed a junior aide over more than a year, escalated to non-consensual sexual conduct, and then he tried to discourage her, allegedly, from pursuing a complaint, all while he was, of course, the ICC's most powerful official.

The woman whose lawyer who worked as his assistant had described a pattern that began with inappropriate familiarity on trips in his office, groping, putting his hand in her pocket, locking doors, asking her to lie on a hotel bed.

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