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Judges on the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for 2 high Taliban leaders on costs of persecuting ladies and women.
ICC judges on Tuesday mentioned there have been “affordable grounds” to suspect Taliban Supreme Chief Hibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani of committing gender-based persecution.
“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 basic rights and freedoms,” the court docket mentioned in an announcement.
The Taliban had “severely disadvantaged” women and girls of the rights to schooling, privateness and household life and the freedoms of motion, expression, thought, conscience and faith, ICC judges mentioned.
“As well as, different individuals have been focused as a result of sure expressions of sexuality and/or gender identification have been thought to be inconsistent with the Taliban’s coverage on gender.”
The court docket mentioned the alleged crimes had been dedicated between August 15, 2021, when the Taliban seized energy, and continued till at the least January 20, 2025.
The ICC, primarily based in The Hague, was set as much as rule on the world’s worst crimes, corresponding to battle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity. It has no police power of its personal and depends on member states to hold out its arrest warrants – with blended outcomes.
In principle, this implies anybody topic to an ICC arrest warrant can not journey to a member state for worry of being detained.