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Rights groups in Africa had strongly opposed Khan's candidature over Ruto links

Karim Khan vowed to turn around his office’s losing record. But if his case against Putin backfires, it could hurt the court’s already-battered reputation.

On 26 September 2022, Paul Gicheru died in Kenya. The Kenyan lawyer was accused of witness tampering at the International Criminal Court (ICC), after the collapse of a big case on the 2007 electoral violence that involves the newly appointed president of Kenya. One month later, the ICC closed the case, looking away from the local investigation on the death.

A Kenyan lawyer awaiting a verdict in a witness tampering case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) was found dead in his home in Nairobi on September 27, 2022.

Mr Gicheru, a former ally of President Ruto, was charged with interfering with ICC witnesses.

The fate of lawyer Paul Gicheru is one of many unexplained deaths linked to the 2007-2008 political violence cases at the ICC, Widespread suspicion greeted the death of Paul Gicheru, the Kenyan lawyer who two years ago turned himself into the International Criminal Court to face charges of tampering with prosecution witnesses in the case against then Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang for organising ethnically-targeted violence after the 2007 elections.

A man found dead in Kenya over the weekend was a key witness for Deputy President William Ruto at his trial in The Hague, his lawyer says.

Ruto and Odinga camps have abandoned all references to their manifestos and gone hammer and tongs at each with insults.

The witness drove to school on Sunday July 16, but disappeared to an undisclosed destination for about an hour.

At least one person gets killed every two days in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Most of these cases either go unreported or are never resolved. Onl