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The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan.
Haibatullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliban, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, chief justice of the Taliban, are suspected of “ordering, inducing or soliciting the crime against humanity of persecution” against girls, women and “other persons non-conforming with the Taliban’s policy on gender, gender identity or expression,” the ICC said in a statement.
Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban has implemented a string of oppressive measures against women and girls, even
