File picture of the outside of the Worldwide Felony Court docket at The Hague, Netherlands.
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The Worldwide Felony Court docket on Tuesday (July 8, 2025) issued arrest warrants for senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of girls, against the law in opposition to humanity.
ICC judges mentioned in a press release there have been “cheap grounds” to suspect Supreme Chief Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani “have dedicated… the crime in opposition to humanity of persecution… on gender grounds.”
“Whereas the Taliban have imposed sure guidelines and prohibitions on the inhabitants as a complete, they’ve particularly focused women and girls by cause of their gender, depriving them of elementary rights and freedoms,” the court docket mentioned.
The court docket mentioned the alleged crimes had been dedicated between August 15, 2021, when the Taliban seized energy and continued till no less than January 20, 2025.
“The Taliban had ‘severely disadvantaged’ women and girls of the rights to training, privateness and household life and the freedoms of motion, expression, thought, conscience and faith,” ICC judges mentioned. “As well as, different individuals had been focused as a result of sure expressions of sexuality and/or gender id had been considered inconsistent with the Taliban’s coverage on gender,” it added.
The ICC, based mostly in The Hague, was set as much as rule on the world’s worst crimes resembling battle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity. It has no police pressure of its personal and depends on its member states to hold out its arrest warrants — with combined outcomes. In idea because of this anybody topic to an ICC arrest warrant can not journey to a member state for concern of being detained.
Printed – July 08, 2025 07:46 pm IST
