{"id":37388,"date":"2021-09-27T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/icc-asked-to-relaunch-inquiry-into-taliban-and-is-war-crimes"},"modified":"2021-09-27T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:14:32","slug":"icc-asked-to-relaunch-inquiry-into-taliban-and-is-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37388","title":{"rendered":"ICC asked to relaunch inquiry into Taliban and IS \u2018war crimes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move shows court\u2019s determination to  investigate contemporary as well as past crimes against humanity<\/p>\n<p>The international criminal court\u2019s new prosecutor has asked the court to relaunch an inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban and supporters of Islamic State in Afghanistan since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Karim Khan shows a determination to use international law to investigate not only past but also contemporary crimes against humanity. The Hague-based ICC has notified the Taliban via Afghanistan\u2019s embassy in the Netherlands that it intends to resume an investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/icc-asked-to-relaunch-inquiry-into-taliban-and-is-war-crimes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move shows court\u2019s determination to  investigate contemporary as well as past crimes against humanityThe international criminal court\u2019s new prosecutor has asked the court to relaunch an inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Tali&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,487,927,734,471,86,61,44,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-islamic-state","category-law","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-war-crimes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37389,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37388\/revisions\/37389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}