ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women
Application says there are reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity being committed against women and girls in Afghanistan
The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor said on Thursday he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity.
Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to suspect that the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, “bear criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds”.
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