The British lawyer was elected the new ICC Attorney General in a vote at the United Nations. He will have the task of restoring the image of the ICC.
Karim Khan was elected in the second round for a nine-year term. 122 countries voted for him. He became the third prosecutor in the history of the ICC and succeeded African Fatou Bensouda.
Karim Khan, 50, knows the corridors and every nook and cranny of international tribunals. Sometimes a defence lawyer, sometimes a victim, the British has practiced in almost all international and special courts, whether for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia or Lebanon and Sierra Leone, where he was the lawyer for a time for former President Charles Taylor.
Before the ICC, he has already represented the Vice-President of Kenya H.E Dr William Ruto, Congolese Jean Pierre Bemba, but also Said al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan dictator, at their trial.
