ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders over persecution of women
The Hague – International Criminal Court The Prosecutor said on Thursday that he had applied for two years detention orders Taliban Leaders in Afghanistan Including the supreme spiritual leader, the prestiges of God, Akhundzada, accused them The persecution of women and girls.
A statement issued by the Public Prosecutors Office, Karim Khan, said that the investigators have found reasonable reasons for the belief that Akhundzada and Abdel Hakim Hakim, who has held the position of senior judges since 2021, “bears criminal responsibility for a crime against humanity from persecution of the causes of sex.”
They are “criminal officials for the persecution of Afghan girls and women … and the people whom the Taliban considered the allies of girls and women” statement He said.
The prosecutor said that the persecution occurred throughout Afghanistan from August 15, 2021 – the day when the Taliban forces seized the capital, Kabul – to this day.
Since the Islamic Group returned to power in 2021, women’s rights, including the limits of education, work and public independence in daily life, have been installed.
There was no immediate comment by the Taliban leaders in the prosecutor’s statement, which was welcomed by groups defending women’s rights.
He will now approve a committee of three judges in the International Criminal Court to judge the prosecution request, which has not had a specific deadline. Such procedures take three months on average.
This was the first time that the International Criminal Court publicly has searched in publicly in the possible war crimes in Afghanistan, which dates back to 2007 and once included alleged crimes by the US military there.
Khan said that his office shows his commitment to pursuing accountability for gender -based crimes and that the Taliban’s interpretation of Islamic law cannot be justified for human rights violations or crimes.
“Afghan women and girls, as well as the LGBTQI+ community, face unprecedented and unreasonable persecution by the Taliban. Our work indicates that the current situation of women and girls in Afghanistan is unacceptable.”
Zalami Nishat, founder of charitable mosaics in the United Kingdom, said that the orders of the International Criminal Court have been issued, as they may have a little impact on Akhundzada, who rarely traveling outside Afghanistan.
“But with regard to the international reputation of Taliban, this means completely erosion of their international legitimacy, if they have anything,” he said.
Khan’s move came amid an existential crisis in the court, which was opened in The Hague in 2002 to prosecute individuals accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression.
President Management Donald Trump It is new economic sanctions against it to issue an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On the alleged crimes in the Gaza Strip.
Moscow returned again in the International Criminal Court of the 2023 Memorandum against the Russian President Vladimir Putin By issuing an order on its own, Lakhn.
Despite the last series of prominent arrest orders, the court halls in The Hague almost empty and Khan are under investigation due to the alleged sexual misconduct in the workplace, which is what he denies.
ICC does not have a police force and depends on 125 member states for arrests. But many European member states have expressed doubts about Netanyahu’s detention, and this week, Italy arrested a suspect in the International Criminal Court, but has failed to hand him over.
