the political Bureau of states, led by Western governments, decided in April to disregard the results of the investigation and to proceed with a disciplinary process, further delaying the Prosecutor’s return to his duties, and has now issued this second decision referring Khan to the full Assembly for disciplinary proceedings.
In issuing these decisions, the political Bureau has stunned Court followers and campaigners for justice in genocide-ravaged Palestine for its open disregard for the findings of investigative bodies, its demonstrable procedural irregularities, the appearance of political bias, and a decade-long context of dedicated efforts by Israel, the U.S., the UK and other Western states to buttress Israeli impunity and to obstruct ICC justice on the Palestine case. Observers suspect that the obstruction campaign against Khan for his pursuit of Israeli perpetrators and the contemporaneous issuance of these decisions are more than just coincidental.
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