2 days ago · The ICC officially began its investigation shortly after the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 and has spent the last two years gathering exhaustive documentation of human rights violations and compiling evidence gathered by a dedicated coalition of organizations, human rights experts, legal advocates and survivors.

Jan 23, 2025 · On Thursday, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan applied for arrest warrants for two senior Taliban officials: Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. They are accused of crimes against humanity on the grounds of gender-based persecution under the Rome Statute of the court, which sets out the duty of every State signatory to exercise its criminal ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Jan 23, 2025 · The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he had applied for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Human rights groups applauded the ICC move against the Taliban leadership. “Their systematic violations of women and girls’ rights, including education bans, and the suppression of those speaking up for women’s rights, have accelerated with complete impunity. With no justice in sight in Afghanistan, the warrant requests offer an essential ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ...

Jan 23, 2025 · ICC judges will now decide whether to issue the warrants. The Taliban said it strongly condemned the accusations as "baseless" and politically motivated, accusing the court of "double standards".

Jan 23, 2025 · The prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in a statement that the Taliban’s leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the head of Afghanistan’s supreme court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, had committed a ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The ICC prosecutor announced that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Akhundzada and Haqqani persecuted Afghan women and girls, and their allies, as well as people whom the “Taliban ...

On 23 January 2025, ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC announced that his Office filed two applications for warrants of arrest for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds, under article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute, against the Supreme Leader of the Taliban, Haibatullah AKHUNDZADA, and the Chief Justice of the “Islamic ...