{"id":12895,"date":"2025-07-08T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:20:25","slug":"icc-issues-arrest-warrants-for-taliban-leaders-over-persecution-of-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12895","title":{"rendered":"ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">THE HAGUE, Netherlands &#8212; <\/span>The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban\u2019s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan\u2019s supreme court on charges of persecuting women and girls since seizing power nearly four years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The warrants also accuse the leaders of persecuting \u201cother persons non-conforming with the Taliban\u2019s policy on gender, gender identity or expression; and on political grounds against persons perceived as \u2018allies of girls and women.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The warrants were issued against Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhunzada and the head of Afghanistan\u2019s Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands &#8212; The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban\u2019s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan\u2019s supreme court on charges of persecuting women and girls since seizing power nearly four years ago. The warrants also accuse the leaders of persecuting \u201cother persons non-conforming with the Taliban\u2019s policy on gender, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12897,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions\/12897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}