🚨Press statement - Removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan KC
 
NEW YORK: Today the Assembly of States Parties voted to remove Karim Khan KC from the office of Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. ⬇️
It is with regret that we note the position taken by the Assembly of States Parties. Over 180 non-governmental organisations and senior international lawyers considered the breaches of due process rights in this case to be of such significant concern that they made them known publicly.

The Assembly has nonetheless decided to disregard these concerns and follow the majority decision in the Bureau. The decision is unsupported by any lawful or properly reasoned finding that Mr Khan KC committed misconduct or breached his duties as Prosecutor. He has denied the allegations from the outset and continues to do so. ⬇️

🚨 An urgent message to the States Parties of the Rome Statute ahead of the vote on 24 July from the Prosecutor’s legal team.

We act for Karim A. A. Khan KC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

On Friday, at a Special Session of the Assembly of States Parties, your delegations will vote in person and by secret ballot on whether the Prosecutor should be removed from office under Article 46 of the Rome Statute, in respect of allegations he has consistently denied.

Before that vote is cast, you are entitled to know how this process has been conducted.

The President of the Assembly has closed every formal channel through which Mr Khan’s legal team might make representations to you and has written to all States Parties suggesting that you should not meet with us.

Mr Khan KC and his legal representatives were refused accreditation to attend the session on 24 July. The right under the rules to address you on the substantive decision of misconduct has been flatly denied to us.

Consider what that means.

You are the decision-makers. You alone will determine whether the Prosecutor is removed. Yet the man whose removal you are considering has been told that his representatives may not address you, may not answer before you the case put against him, and may not correct errors, of which there are many, in the material placed in front of you. We know of no court or tribunal in any proper and fair legal system that bars a person facing the gravest professional sanction from being heard.

So we write openly, though restricted by confidentiality obligations, because no other route has been left to us.

These are the facts. 🧵👇
First, this matter has been investigated for nearly two years, internally by the ICC’s Independent Oversight Mechanism and externally by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services. The OIOS investigation ran for thirteen months, from November 2024 to December 2025. Its investigators interviewed more than thirty individuals and gathered more than five thousand pages of material.

After all of that, the OIOS did not reach definitive factual conclusions on the contested allegations. 👇

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It is my considered view that UK police and government have, on multiple occasions, proactively taken steps that have the effect of protecting Israeli war crimes suspects from arrest or investigation, rather than facilitating accountability in accordance with UK law and the United Kingdom’s obligations under international criminal law.

This approach extends beyond foreign nationals and includes the apparent failure to investigate or arrest UK citizens who have travelled to Gaza and participated in hostilities that may amount to international crimes.

This stands in stark contrast to the aggressive policing, criminalisation, and proscription of anti-genocide protesters and solidarity groups within the United Kingdom.

Taken together, these practices raise profound concerns about selective enforcement, political deference, and equality before the law. 🔷 Doron Almog (2005)

Major General Doron Almog avoided arrest at Heathrow Airport after Israeli authorities were warned in advance of an outstanding arrest warrant. He remained on the aircraft and returned to Israel. UK police later acknowledged failures in executing the warrant.
See: theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/12…

🚨 H A T E v T E R R O R 🧵
The Labour government is not for protecting you - if you are a Muslim.
In Gaza or Sussex…

1️⃣ Two religious communities were attacked in Britain this week.

In Manchester, a synagogue was attacked and two Jewish worshippers were murdered.

In Peacehaven, a mosque was set on fire with people inside. (You would be forgiven for missing the firebombing of Peacehaven mosque - the reaction was a rather mute).

Both acts were meant to terrify.

Only one was called terrorism. 2️⃣ The Manchester killings were condemned as terrorism.

MI5 was briefed within hours.

Ministers spoke volumes.

The country mourned as one.

The Peacehaven mosque arson, an attack “with intent to endanger life”, has been described only as a hate crime
- and you’d be forgiven for thinking the government didn’t know it had happened.

🚨 Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Legal Analysis of Domination Disguised as Peace 🧵

Donald Trump’s recently unveiled 20-point “peace plan” for Gaza has been welcomed by some governments as bold diplomacy. In reality, it is neither bold nor lawful.

It is a framework designed to entrench external domination and defer Palestinian sovereignty indefinitely.

Far from advancing peace, the plan risks embedding violations of international law and shielding them with a veneer of legitimacy. At its core, the plan denies Palestinians the most fundamental of rights: self-determination.

Instead of recognising Palestine’s entitlement to sovereignty under international law, it envisages a transitional administration appointed and overseen by an external “Board of Peace,” led by Trump himself and reportedly involving figures such as Tony Blair.

Palestinians are reduced to the status of managed subjects, governed by technocrats under foreign tutelage, rather than a people entitled to exercise their inalienable right to self-rule.

The UK submits a request to file a legal argument that the ICC only has jurisdiction over Hamas and not Israelis.

The UK is set on protecting Israeli war criminals. Neither Labour nor Tories have committed to hold Israeli war criminals to account.

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The UK argument is poor. It is based on the fact that the Oslo accords do not give the Palestinians the right to prosecute Israelis in Palestine.

The Oslo agreement is a material aspect of the continued subjugation of Palestinians. It is a tool of oppression and

🧵 After considering both the Israeli & South African submissions one thing is clear-no matter how difficult to implement as part of its provisional measures @CIJ_ICJ MUST order a ceasefire.

It is clear that Israel’s view is dangerously far apart from South Africa’s. It is important to understand that Israel denies it violated international law despite the evidence South Africa presented and the unimpeachable fact that over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed with the majority being women and children. These numbers will continue to rise.

At the gates of the Peace Palace in The Hague, home of the International Court of Justice.

Tomorrow will be the first day of hearings to consider South Africa’s application for provisional measures in their allegation that Israel has breached the Genocide Convention.

I could not think of a more important test for international law than this!

‼️ Message to British MPs ‼️

You have a few days left before the ICJ hearing into South Africa’s request for provisional measures.

NOW is the time to make your final positions known. Do you stand with the rule of law and the principles of justice or are you complicit in Israel’s alleged genocide.

Failing to speak out now will render you stuck with your decision. History will not let your position be forgotten. There can be no revisionism from the catastrophe that is now Gaza.

Imagine if the ICJ acts in a way which ends Israel’s mindless, disproportionate and vengeful violence in Gaza.

If the institutions we built after WW2 work to prevent further loss of life it will show we have learnt from our past mistakes.

If they work to stop genocide in Gaza we will wonder how many millions would have lived in World War 2 if we had imagined these institutions into reality earlier in our human story.

Prevention, Intervention and Accountability - This must be the legacy and function of the rules based system we created to prevent another holocaust.

If our legal institutions fail they will forever be rendered meaningless and millions in the world will see the might of the military as right and violence as the only answer. The right side of history - who else is joining @RichardBurgon

https://twitter.com/richardburgon/status/1744448926307004761

#BlackLivesMatter a timeline

1619 - A Dutch captained ship with 20 captives lands at Point Comfort with 20 captives ushering in American Slavery. These captives joined the many Native American slaves and white European indentured servants 1620 - The Mayflower arrives at the British Colonies with 20 passengers

1661 - First Anti-Miscegration Statute - banning marriage between races written into law in Maryland. (by 1960s 21 US states has these laws in place) Alabama was the last to repeal the ban in 2000