The Worldwide Legal Court docket on Tuesday (native time) issued arrest warrants towards two prime Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, CNN reported.In an announcement, ICC clarified that the 2 males, Taliban supreme chief Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani are accused of encouraging the abuse of ladies, ladies and others who don’t adhere with the Taliban’s coverage on gender.In response, the Taliban referred to as the arrest warrants “nonsense” and stated they don’t acknowledge the ICC. Additionally they accused the court docket of exhibiting hatred towards Islam by calling their interpretation of Islamic legislation against the law.Again in January, the ICC’s chief prosecutor stated the duo has been criminally liable for finishing up gender-based persecution since at the least August 15, 2021, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan.Since returning to energy in 2021, the Taliban have imposed harsh restrictions on girls and ladies. Women are banned from attending faculty past sixth grade. Girls should cowl their whole our bodies and faces in public and should not allowed to talk to or take a look at males exterior their households. The sound of ladies’s voices in public has additionally been restricted.The ICC stated the Taliban have particularly focused girls and ladies due to their gender, taking away their fundamental rights and freedom.“Whereas the Taliban have imposed sure guidelines and prohibitions on the inhabitants as an entire, they’ve particularly focused women and girls by cause of their gender, depriving them of basic rights and freedoms,” the ICC stated on Tuesday.“Particularly, the Taliban severely disadvantaged, via decrees and edicts, women and girls of the rights to training, privateness and household life and the freedoms of motion, expression, thought, conscience and faith,” it continued.The regime has additionally focused individuals who assist girls’s rights and LGBTQ individuals whose identities don’t match the Taliban’s guidelines on gender.The arrest warrants had been issued in the future after the United Nations Normal Meeting handed a decision expressing deep concern concerning the worsening oppression of ladies and ladies in Afghanistan. The UN referred to as on the Taliban to rapidly reverse these insurance policies.Lisa Davis, ICC’s Particular Adviser on Gender and Different Discriminatory Crimes, stated that is the primary time a global court docket has acknowledged LGBTQ individuals as victims of crimes towards humanity for gender persecution, in accordance with media reviews.Human rights teams have welcomed the ICC transfer. Amnesty Worldwide’s Secretary Normal Agnes Callamard referred to as it an vital step towards holding these accountable accountable.Liz Evenson, the worldwide justice director of Human Rights Watch stated the arrest warrants may present victims and their households with a necessary pathway to justice.
