ICC issues warrant for Taliban's supreme leader for persecution of women

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women

Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanity

Kaamil Ahmed and Zahra Joya
Tue 8 Jul 2025 18.23 BST
Last modified on Tue 8 Jul 2025 21.40 BST

The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution of women and girls.

In a statement, the ICC said on Tuesday there were “reasonable grounds to believe” the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan’s chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, had ordered policies that deprived women and girls of “education, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion”.

Afghan human rights activists have called for the Taliban’s system of depriving women and girls of rights and freedoms and enforcing segregation to be recognised as gender apartheid.

Tahera Nasiri, an Afghan women’s rights activist now living in Canada, said the arrest warrant was an acknowledgment of the abuses Afghan women faced. “For four years, the Taliban have told us to stay silent, stay at home, cover our faces, give up our education, our voices and our dreams. Now, an international court is saying:

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/08/international-criminal-court-icc-arrest-warrants-taliban-supreme-leader-persecution-women

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Unfortunately - the Taliban Government

Does nor recognize the previous government's 2003 agreement to the Rome Statute and consider it voided.

The US does not recognize it either. No one is coming to save us.

[Callie1979]

2. HAHAHAHAHA what a f'ing JOKE.

ALL of this could've been prevented but we decided to ignore it

[Dr. T]

3. Will the American Taliban, and by that I mean MAGAts

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and their leaders, be the next to be recognized by the ICC for persecution of women in America?

I'm talking about the tracking of pregnant Texas women. How far will these religious zealots go if left unchecked?