International law
World criminal court issues arrest warrants against Taliban leaders
Updated on July 8th, 2025 – 5:37 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
In 2021, the Islamist Taliban in Afghanistan once again took power. The victims of the injustice regime are especially women and girls. Now the Taliban leaders are being sought internationally.
The International Criminal Court in Den Haag issued arrest warrants against leading members of the Taliban ruling in Afghanistan. The Taliban leader Haibatullah Achundsada and the Supreme Richter, Abdul Hakim Hakkani, are accused of crimes against humanity about the disenfranchisement of women and girls.
Since the Taliban’s takeover on August 15, 2021, women and girls had been pursued for their gender and withhold fundamental rights and freedoms, the judges justified their decision.
According to the judges, the Taliban pursue a policy that leads to serious violations of fundamental rights and freedoms of the civilian population: murder, detention, torture and rape. Women and girls in particular are withheld the right to education, privacy and family life as well as movement, expression and religious freedom. You should not determine your body.
Other people are also victims of this policy, according to the judges, since the Taliban did not accept their forms of expression of sexuality or gender identity.
It is the first arrest warrants in the course of the investigation against Taliban. The indictment spoke of an important sign of judges for women and girls. “Among other things, the withdrawal of fundamental rights to education, privacy and a family life by the Taliban Afghan women and girls were increasingly removed from public life,” says a statement by the prosecutors. The investigation would continue.
The chief bank led by the World Criminal Court, Karim Khan, had requested arrest warrants in January. The Taliban then rejected the allegations. The criminal prosecution is politically motivated and is not necessary for a legal basis.
The Criminal Court does not have its own police notice and is dependent on the help of its contracting states in enforcing the arrest warrants. As soon as the sought -after people are on their territory, a contracting state must arrest them and hand over to the court.
The prosecutor refers to numerous evidence such as testimonies, official decrees, videos and explanations of the Taliban. In 2022 he had resumed the investigation into crime Afghanistan.
