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Deputy President William Ruto with his lawyer Karim Khan and Joshua Sang at the ICC. [File, Standard]
Lawyer Karim Khan, the fast-talking Queen’s Counsel lawyer who represented Deputy President William Ruto in the International Criminal Court (ICC), is the new court’s prosecutor.
Given to verbose and dropping phrases, Khan was elected by Assembly of State Parties for a nine-year term, replacing Gambian Fatou Bensouda. The court’s first prosecutor was Louis Moreno Ocampo who initiated the Kenyan cases.
His position now puts him at the centre of a raging storm with regard to the situation of lawyer Paul Gicheru, who surrendered to the court, and who had been accused of witness interference by his predecessor. Gicheru’s witness interference case relates to Khan’s former client, Ruto.