The chief prosecutor holds the most important post at the court, which has been operating since 2002 in The Hague. The top body in international criminal justice, it has 18 judges to carry out its mandate of trying crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of genocide and aggression. But the prosecutor drives the institution by selecting the cases to pursue, effectively determining what events and which people are targeted by the court. Khan, 50, currently leads a U.N. group investigating war crimes attributed to the Islamic State group. The appointment of a new prosecutor comes at a time when the court has both expanded its scope and taken on more sensitive cases.

Source: bd News24 February 13, 2021 15:33 UTC