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The ICC Wants to Arrest Taliban Leaders Over Their Mistreatment of Women. Will It Matter?

Summary by The Diplomat
The warrants are the first ever on charges of gender persecution. But will they actually improve the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan?

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued two arrest warrants, one against Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and the other against Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, for gender-based persecution in Afghanistan. The court has ordered the arrest of both leaders, who have exercised de facto authority since at least August 15, 2021. It finds that they have committed, "by ordering, inducing, or soliciting," crimes ag…

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If violence, murder, rape, detention, torture, humiliation, and assassination brought eternal power and domination to Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Ali Khamenei, Hosni Mubarak, and their ilk, it will also bring it to the Taliban. Saddam, Gaddafi, and Mubarak are not there, but Khamenei is. The Taliban can look at his condition and see that after forty-six years of relentless pressure exerted by the Islamic Republic of Iran on the people of th…

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