The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has requested arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and Afghanistan's interim Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Khan alleges they are responsible for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds, citing the Taliban's restrictions on girls' education and targeting of women and individuals perceived as defying their gender norms.
Chief prosecutor Karim Khan claims both leaders “bear criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds, under article 7 of the Rome Statute.”Khan says that his office filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC over the situation in the war-torn nation. / Photo: AP Archive
Khan said on Thursday that his office filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC over the situation in the war-torn nation. He said ICC’s Afghanistan Unified Team probing the situation is led by Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan. “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. This persecution was committed from at least 15 August 2021 until the present day, across the territory of Afghanistan,” he added.
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT TALIBAN AFGHANISTAN HUMAN RIGHTS GENDER PERSECUTION
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