The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n
The pair are suspected of \u201cordering, inducing or soliciting\u201d the persecution of girls, women and others who don\u2019t conform with the Taliban\u2019s policy on gender, the ICC said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Haibatullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, chief justice of the hardline Islamist group, are \u201ccriminally responsible\u201d for carrying out persecution on gender-based grounds since \u201cat least\u201d August 15 2021, the ICC\u2019s chief prosecutor said back in January. <\/p>\n
Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban has implemented a string of oppressive measures against women and girls, even cracking down on the sound of women\u2019s voices in public. <\/p>\n
Girls have been barred from education after sixth grade. Women must veil their bodies and wear a face covering at all times in public, and have also been forbidden to look at men they are not related to. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the Taliban have imposed certain rules and prohibitions on the population as a whole, they have specifically targeted girls and women by reason of their gender, depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms,\u201d the ICC said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cSpecifically, the Taliban severely deprived, through decrees and edicts, girls and women of the rights to education, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion,\u201d it continued. <\/p>\n
Other people, including \u201callies of girls and women\u201d and those with sexualities or gender identities viewed as \u201cinconsistent with the Taliban\u2019s policy on gender,\u201d were also targeted by the Taliban, the ICC said. <\/p>\n
Lisa Davis, the ICC\u2019s Special Adviser on Gender and Other Discriminatory Crimes, said in a post on social media that this is \u201cthe first time in history\u201d that an international tribunal has confirmed LGBTQ people to be \u201cvictims of crimes against humanity, namely gender persecution.\u201d <\/p>\n
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