Haydee Dijkstal (Barrister, 33 Bedford Row Chambers) appeared on The Crossroads Podcast along with Hadi Marifat (founder and director of the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation - AHRDO) to discuss the analysis and findings within a recent AHRDO report documenting evidence of crimes committed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) against the Hazara-Shia community in Afghanistan. 

Haydee Dijkstal is instructed by AHRDO as external counsel in order to assist and contribute to its documentation of crimes and human rights violations in Afghanistan.  This included assistance with the legal analysis within its report concerning ISKP crimes.

The podcast discussed extensive evidence collected by AHRDO and reflected in the report, and the legal analysis conducted of relevant crimes under the Rome Statute.  The legal analysis set out in the report, and discussed during the podcast, proposes that relevant and applicable crimes include:

• genocide by killing members of a group (Article 6(a)),
• direct and public incitement to commit genocide (Article 25(3)(e)
• the crime against humanity of murder (Article 7(1)(a))
• the crime against humanity of persecution on religious and ethnic grounds (Article 7(1)(h))
• the war crime of murder (Article 8(2)(c)(i)), and
• the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against protected objects (Article 8(2)(e)(iv))

AHRDO’s full report was published in December 2025, and can be found here.

The Crossroads Podcast can be viewed here.

The Crossroads Podcast is run by Ali Adili, who is a non-resident policy fellow at the Andiana Foundation, and non-resident fellow with NYU's Center on International Cooperation.