ICC Issues Order To Arrest 2 Taliban Leaders For Persecuting Women

JAKARTA - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan including the supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada.

Both are suspected of molesting women and girls.

The ICC said there was a plausible reason to believe Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the Chief Justice of the Taliban Supreme Court, had committed crimes against humanity in the form of gender abuse against girls, girls and others who were not in accordance with Taliban policies on gender, identity or gender expression.

There have been no reports of the Taliban's response to the ICC arrest warrant.