Afghanistan: ICC Prosecutor Seeks Gender Persecution Charges

By Human Rights Watch

(The Hague) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s applications for arrest warrants against two senior Taliban leaders is a milestone in seeking justice for serious abuses against women and girls in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. The prosecutor’s January 23, 2025 requests seek a charge of the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds against the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and its chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani.The ICC prosecutor announced that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Akhundzada and Haqqani…

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