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Clea Skopeliti

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over women's rights violations

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan's Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls in the country.

The ICC warrants, issued on Tuesday, accuse the leaders of "ordering, inducing or soliciting" the crime against humanity of persecution on the grounds of gender since they seized power four years ago.

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