Overview
- Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the measures target those responsible for restricting women’s access to education, work, movement and public life.
- The listed officials are Muhammad Khalid Hanafi, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, Abdul-Hakim Sharei and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani.
- The framework imposes financial restrictions and travel bans, prohibits Australians from dealing with the officials’ assets and bars the supply of arms or related services.
- DFAT described the regime as a world-first autonomous framework that also includes an arms embargo and a humanitarian permit to keep aid flowing.
- The Taliban had not issued a public response, and Haqqani remains subject to an ICC arrest warrant over alleged crimes against humanity tied to persecution of women and girls.