International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has announced plans to carry out a preliminary investigation of alleged human rights abuses in North Kivu by the M23 militia which Kinshasa claims is directed by Rwanda...

After Yebei's murder Ruto's lead defence lawyer the British KC and current ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan stated his team had no knowledge of the circumstances of the murder...

The election of British lawyer Karim Ahmad Khan on 12 February as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court comes as it is still struggling to establish its credibility two decades after its foundation and having chalked up just five successful prosecutions...

Africa Confidential has seen correspondence detailing Nairobi's hostility to the candidacy of Ireland's Fergal Gaynor who was runner-up to Karim Ahmad Khan in the final round of voting in New York on 12 February...

'It's a clear principle of law that one cannot be tried twice for the same offence ' defence lawyer Karim Khan said on 27 June in the Hague...

In a riposte to the ICC on 2 May Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan asked the Court to appoint an outside amicus curiae prosecutor an independent 'friend' to investigate and possibly criminally charge the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's staff and intermediaries with bribing and coaching four of the Court's own witnesses...

Karim Khan Ruto's counsel then claimed that he had been planning to call Yebei as a defence witness and that the ICC was responsible for the abduction...

Muthaura's British lawyer Karim Ahmad Khan who defended former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone also at the Hague stressed that his client had not made 'any adverse comments' or done anything that would be a 'cause for concern' and did not want the public listening in Kenya to think otherwise...