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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2025
ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls

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UNB/AP
09 July, 2025, 01:50 pm
Last modified: 09 July, 2025, 05:54 pm

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ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls

The warrants also accuse the leaders of persecuting “other persons non-conforming with the Taliban’s policy on gender, gender identity or expression; and on political grounds against persons perceived as ‘allies of girls and women.’”

UNB/AP
09 July, 2025, 01:50 pm
Last modified: 09 July, 2025, 05:54 pm
Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban's supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan's Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls since seizing power nearly four years ago.

The warrants also accuse the leaders of persecuting "other persons non-conforming with the Taliban's policy on gender, gender identity or expression; and on political grounds against persons perceived as 'allies of girls and women.'"

The warrants were issued against Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhunzada and the head of the Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani.

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The court said in a statement that the Taliban have "severely deprived, through decrees and edicts, girls and women of the rights to education, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion. In addition, other persons were targeted because certain expressions of sexuality and/or gender identity were regarded as inconsistent with the Taliban's policy on gender."

The court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, sought the warrants in January, saying that they recognized that "Afghan women and girls as well as the LGBTQI+ community are facing an unprecedented, unconscionable and ongoing persecution by the Taliban."

Global advocacy group Human Rights Watch welcomed the decision.

"Senior Taliban leaders are now wanted men for their alleged persecution of women, girls, and gender non-conforming people. The international community should fully back the ICC in its critical work in Afghanistan and globally, including through concerted efforts to enforce the court's warrants," Liz Evenson, the group's international justice director, said in a statement.

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