{"id":43414,"date":"2025-02-21T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=43414"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:58:15","slug":"taliban-withdraws-from-the-international-criminal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/taliban-withdraws-from-the-international-criminal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Withdraws from the International Criminal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s hardline Taliban leaders on Thursday rejected the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling their predecessors\u2019 2003 decision to join the court\u2019s founding treaty in The Hague &#8220;illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move follows last month&#8217;s announcement by the ICC\u2019s chief prosecutor, who requested arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and a close associate, accusing them of &#8220;criminal responsibility for the persecution of Afghan women and girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban regained power militarily in August 2021, ousting the internationally recognized government in Kabul as U.S.-led NATO forces withdrew after nearly two decades in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Now ruling under the banner of the &#8220;Islamic Emirate,&#8221; the Taliban enforces its strict interpretation of Sharia law, imposing extensive restrictions on freedom of expression, women&#8217;s education, and their participation in public life, according to a Voice of America report on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s hardline Taliban leaders on Thursday rejected the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling their predecessors\u2019 2003 decision to join the court\u2019s founding treaty in The Hague &#8220;illegal.&#8221; The move follows last month&#8217;s announcement by the ICC\u2019s chief prosecutor, who requested arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and a close associate, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43415,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions\/43415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}