International Criminal Court member states voted on Friday to expel Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to two diplomatic sources.
Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue, the sources said that 82 of the 125 countries of the court voted in favor of removing the prosecutor.
Khan, 56, denies any wrongdoing and his lawyers have called the process that led to the vote illegal, procedurally unfair and not supported by evidence.
Khan’s expulsion follows the US announcement that it will launch a new diplomatic campaign to dismantle the ICC, which it says is a threat to its authority.
Diplomats who run the court’s oversight board ruled last month that the British lawyer had an inappropriate affair with a junior ICC lawyer and should be fired.
Member states largely followed that conclusion in a vote at the United Nations in New York on Friday.
