ICC: Judges Reject Afghanistan Investigation

Expand The Permanent Premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2016 UN Photo/Rick Bajornas (The Hague) – The decision by International Criminal Court (ICC) judges not to open a formal investigation into alleged grave crimes in Afghanistan denies the country’s victims a path to justice, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 12, 2019, a pretrial chamber unanimously rejected the November 2017 request by the court’s prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, to investigate alleged crimes against humanity by the Taliban and alleged war crimes by Afghan National Security Forces…

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