The International Criminal Court (ICC) warned the arrest warrant for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Chief Justice, accusing them of harassing girls and women in Afghanistan.
The ICC said that it was the basis for assuming that the Chief Justice of the Taliban, the supreme spiritual leaders Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqani had committed a crime against the humanity of harassment on gender basis against girls, women and said a statement with a statement of Taliban on the gender, gender identity or expression.
“While the Taliban overall the population has implemented some rules and prohibitions on the population, they have specifically targeted girls and women due to their gender, deprived of stopping rights and freedom,” the statement continued.
The ICC judges stated that the Taliban had “severely deprived” girls and women of education, secrecy and family life rights and said movement, expression, thoughts, conscience and religion, the ICC judges said.
“In addition, the other person was targeted because some expression of sexuality and/or gender identity was considered incompatible with the Taliban policy on the penis.”
What has been the Taliban response?
The Hague-based court alleged that the crime took place from August 15, 2021, when the Taliban seized the power, and ended at least by 20 January 2025.
The Taliban dismissed the warrant as a “nonsense” and that the ICC move would not affect the strong commitment and dedication to the “Sharia (Islamic Law),” spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.
What is the purpose of ICC?
The ICC was designed to pass a decision on the world’s worst crimes, discover war crimes and crimes against humanity. The court has no police force of its own and depends on the member states to complete his arrest warrant.
In theory, this means that no ICC is subject to arrest warrant, which cannot travel to the member state for fear of being wide. In practice, it has not always been a case.
Since returning to power four years ago, the Taliban has taken measures to ban women from public places and ban girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade.
Last week, Russia became the first country to formally identify the Taliban rule.
In recent years, ICC has the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Edited by: saim dusan inayatullah
