Mr Ghaly is suspected of being responsible for the following crimes:

• war crimes: murder of soldiers placed hors de combat in Aguelhoc; rape, sexual slavery and any other form of sexual violence; violence to person (mutilation, cruel treatment and torture) and outrages upon personal dignity (humiliating and degrading treatment); intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion and historic monuments; and

• crimes against humanity: imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty; rape, sexual slavery and any other form of sexual violence; torture; other inhumane acts causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health; persecution on religious grounds; and persecution of women and girls on gender grounds.

Allegedly responsible for ordering, inducing or soliciting the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds against girls, women and other persons non-conforming with the Taliban’s policy on gender, gender identity or expression; and on political grounds against persons perceived as “allies of girls and women” (under article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in connection with conducts of murder, imprisonment, torture, rape and enforced disappearance, on the territory of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power on 15 August 2021, and have continued until at least 20 January 2025. 

Charges: five counts of crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, and rape; two counts of war crimes: intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities, and pillaging; three counts of genocide: by killing, by causing serious bodily or mental harm, and by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, allegedly committed at least between 2003 and 2008 in Darfur, Sudan

Allegedly responsible for the crime against humanity of murder allegedly committed at least between 3 July 2016 and the end of April 2018, during which no less than 32 persons were killed, in the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of his involvement in a common plan to kill alleged criminals in the Philippines (including those perceived or alleged to be associated with drug use, sale or production).

Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of outrages upon personal dignity (article 8(2)(c)(ii) of the Statute); cruel treatment (article 8(2)(c)(i)); torture (article 8(2)(c)(i)); rape and sexual violence (article 8(2)(e)(vi)); and murder (article 8(2)(c)(i)), committed in Mitiga Prison from 15 February 2015 onwards; as well as for the crimes against humanity of imprisonment (article 7(1)(e)); torture (article 7(1)(f)); rape and sexual violence (article 7(1)(g)); murder (article 7(1)(a); and persecution (article 7(1)(h)), committed in Mitiga Prison from 15 February 2015 onwards.

Charges: two counts of crimes against humanity: murder and persecution, allegedly committed in 2011 in Libya. Case also involved charges Muammar Gaddafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi in warrant issued on 27 June 2011. Case against Abdullah Al-Senussi was declared inadmissible on 11 October 2013. Case against Muammar Gaddafi was terminated on 22 November 2011, following his death.

Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.

Allegedly responsible for ordering, inducing or soliciting the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds against girls, women and other persons non-conforming with the Taliban’s policy on gender, gender identity or expression; and on political grounds against persons perceived as “allies of girls and women” (under article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in connection with conducts of murder, imprisonment, torture, rape and enforced disappearance, on the territory of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power on 15 August 2021, and have continued until at least 20 January 2025.

Charges: 20 counts of crimes against humanity: murder, persecution, forcible transfer of population, rape, inhumane acts, imprisonment or severe deprivation of, and torture; and 22 counts of war crimes: murder, attacks against the civilian population, destruction of property, rape, pillaging, and outrage upon personal dignity, allegedly committed at least between 2003 and 2004 in Darfur, Sudan.

Charges: 7 counts of crimes against humanity: persecution, murder, forcible transfer, rape, inhumane acts, imprisonment or severe deprivation of liberty, and torture; and 6 counts of war crimes: murder, attacks against a civilian population, destruction of property, rape, pillaging, and outrage upon personal dignity, allegedly committed at least between 2003 and 2004 in Darfur, Sudan