Activists urge progress in ICC’s Afghanistan probe

‘Activists have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up a probe into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.
Katherine Gallagher, a lawyer representing some 20 Afghan and international activists, said on Wednesday that the group would use a meeting with ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to press the UN body on the probe.
Gallagher said the activists would now “really like to encourage the office of the prosecutor to move forward with this.”
Guissou Jahangiri, the deputy president of the International Federation for Human Rights, also expressed hope that a meeting in The Hague on Thursday would help speed up the probe, which started in 2007.’
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