ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of ladies | Taliban

The worldwide felony court docket’s chief prosecutor mentioned on Thursday he was looking for arrest warrants in opposition to senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of ladies, against the law in opposition to humanity.

Karim Khan mentioned there have been affordable grounds to suspect that the Taliban’s supreme chief, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, “bear felony accountability for the crime in opposition to humanity of persecution on gender grounds”.

Khan mentioned Afghan girls and women, in addition to the LGBTQI+ group, have been going through “an unprecedented, unconscionable and ongoing persecution by the Taliban”.

He added: “Our motion alerts that the established order for ladies and women in Afghanistan just isn’t acceptable.”

After sweeping again to energy in August 2021, the Taliban authorities pledged a softer rule than their first stint in energy from 1996 to 2001. However they shortly imposed restrictions on girls and women that the United Nations has labelled “gender apartheid”.

Edicts in keeping with their interpretation of Islamic legislation handed down by Akhundzada, who guidelines by decree from the motion’s birthplace in southern Kandahar, have squeezed girls and women from public life.

ICC judges will now contemplate Khan’s software earlier than deciding whether or not to difficulty an arrest warrant – a course of that would take weeks and even months.

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