The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders for gender-based crimes against women and girls in Afghanistan. ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan laid out the case against the two men: Hibatullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliban, and Hakim Haqqani, chief justice of what the Taliban calls the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”

Karim Khan: “My office has concluded that these two Afghan nationals are criminally responsible for persecuting Afghan girls and women, as well as persons whom the Taliban perceived are not conforming with their ideological expectations of gender identity or expression, and persons whom the Taliban perceived as allies of girls and women.”