{"id":72800,"date":"2025-07-09T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jul\/08\/international-criminal-court-icc-arrest-warrants-taliban-supreme-leader-persecution-women"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:23:08","slug":"icc-issues-warrant-for-talibans-supreme-leader-for-persecution-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72800","title":{"rendered":"ICC issues warrant for Taliban\u2019s supreme leader for persecution of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanity<\/p>\n<p>The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution of women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/news\/situation-afghanistan-icc-pre-trial-chamber-ii-issues-arrest-warrants-haibatullah-akhundzada\">a statement, the ICC said<\/a> on Tuesday there were \u201creasonable grounds to believe\u201d the Taliban\u2019s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan\u2019s chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, had ordered policies that deprived women and girls of \u201ceducation, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jul\/08\/international-criminal-court-icc-arrest-warrants-taliban-supreme-leader-persecution-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanityThe international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes agai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4837,"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":[46,59,927,734,86,79,61,44,2410,3282,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-international-criminal-court","category-international-criminal-justice","category-law","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-violence-against-women-and-girls","category-women-under-the-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72800","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\/4837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72801,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72800\/revisions\/72801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}