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ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Afghan Taliban leaders over persecution of women
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Who are the Taliban leaders the ICC Prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for?
I.C.C. Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Taliban Leader for Persecution of Afghan Women and Girls
Karim Khan said that a crime against humanity was being committed by top officials against “Afghan women and girls, as well as the LGBTQI+ community.”
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American-backed governments.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban officials for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan.
In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison.
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Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.
An Afghan police official says a Chinese citizen has been killed in the country's northeast. The killing of foreigners is rare in Afghanistan, especially since the withdrawal of foreign troops in 2021.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor on Thursday said he had applied for arrest warrants for Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, accusing them of crimes against humanity for widespread discrimination against women and girls.
While the release of Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty is to be celebrated, Americans Mahmood Habibi and George Glezmann remain in Taliban custody.
Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone of the movement that has ruled the country unchallenged since reclaiming power in 2021,
The requested warrants target Hibatullah Akhundzada, the reclusive Kandahar-based leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the group’s chief justice.
Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American-backed governments. The International Criminal Court prosecutor on Thursday said he had applied for arrest warrants for Taliban leaders,
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