{"id":12482,"date":"2025-07-09T05:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12482"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:13:36","slug":"the-international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrants-for-taliban-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/the-international-criminal-court-issues-arrest-warrants-for-taliban-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12475\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/habatul-baz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The International Criminal Court has announced that arrest warrants have been issued for Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the group\u2019s chief court judge, on charges of crimes against humanity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the court\u2019s official statement, the second chamber of the pre-trial chamber issued the warrant on Tuesday, July 8, stressing that there is sufficient evidence of \u201ctheir role in systematic crimes against women, girls and vulnerable groups.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The charges include gender-based harassment, imprisonment and torture, enforced disappearances and systematic deprivation of fundamental rights and freedoms. The court\u2019s findings show that the Taliban have violated women\u2019s basic rights, including education, freedom of movement and freedom of expression, by implementing a discriminatory policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The statement said that those who opposed the Taliban\u2019s gender views were targeted as \u201cpolitical enemies\u201d even when this opposition was not directly expressed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This is not the court\u2019s first formal action to issue arrest warrants for senior Taliban leaders, but it is a major step in documenting and prosecuting the group\u2019s crimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leader The International Criminal Court has announced that arrest warrants have been issued for Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the group\u2019s chief court judge, on charges of crimes against humanity. According to the court\u2019s official statement, the second chamber of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12483,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions\/12483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}