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ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women’s rights violations.

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ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women’s rights violations.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls in the country.

The ICC warrants, issued on Tuesday, accuse the leaders of “ordering, inducing or soliciting” the crime against humanity of persecution on the grounds of gender since they seized power four years ago.They name the Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhunzada and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani.

As well as persecuting women and girls, the ICC also accuses the leaders of targeting “other persons…because certain expressions of sexuality and/or gender identity were regarded as inconsistent with the Taliban’s policy on gender.”

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