Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, Since they took back control of the country in , the Taliban have barred women from jobs , most public spaces and education beyond sixth grade.
Last year, Akhundzada banned buildings from having windows looking into places where a woman might sit or stand. Nobody from the Taliban government was immediately available for comment. Human rights groups applauded the ICC move against the Taliban leadership. Judges at the The Hague-based court approved a request in from the prosecutor to reopen the investigation into Afghanistan.
The probe was shelved after Kabul said it could handle the investigation. However, human rights groups criticized Khan's decision to focus on crimes committed by the Taliban and the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State group.
The decision to look into Americans led to the previous Trump administration slapping sanctions on Bensouda, whose term ended in There is no deadline for judges to rule on a request for a warrant, but a decision typically takes around four months.
It took a pre-trial chamber three weeks to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in but six months in the case of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year.
