ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants for Taliban Leaders Over Treatment of Afghan Women - CNN

The International Criminal Court is pursuing arrest warrants for senior Taliban officials over alleged gender-based crimes amid the group's ongoing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, Orda reports, citing CNN.

Afghan women's rights advocates and human rights activists have welcomed the ICC's move to target the two high-ranking Taliban leaders, Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the Chief Justice of the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,’ Abdul Hakim Haqqani.

My Office has concluded that these two Afghan nationals are criminally responsible for persecuting Afghan girls and women, as well as persons whom the Taliban perceived as not conforming with their ideological expectations of gender identity or expression, and persons whom the Taliban perceived as allies of girls and women,  ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said.