Five new candidates for the Presidency of the "International Criminal"
Reuters reported that a British lawyer is looking into the atrocities of "ISIS", and a Canadian helped bring the perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia to justice, placing them among 5 new candidates who joined the competition for the leadership of the International Criminal Court.
And the British, Karim Khan, is currently heading a United Nations team investigating the crimes of "ISIS" in Iraq.
While Canadian Robert Beatty, a former prosecutor in the Special Court for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Some countries had complained that the original four candidates, chosen through a process in which the focus was on consensus, did not include the personalities of the international weight required for the position.
The member states of the court, which number 123, are scheduled to meet in New York from the seventh to December 13, when they are scheduled to choose a successor to Fatou Bensouda from the Gambia, whose mandate as the court's attorney general ends in June.
It is worth noting that the selection process for the most important position in the field of international criminal justice has reached a dead end for several months.
