In a world first, The Hague wants to arrest Taliban leaders over their treatment of women – what happens next?
- Written by Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria, Lecturer in Criminal Law and International Law, Curtin University
Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.
The court’s Pre-Trial Chamber II cited reasonable grounds for believing supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani were guilty of “ordering, inducing or soliciting the crime...
