Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad
Athens, GreeceReuters When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she burned every document in her home and went into hiding. Then she fled the country. Like dozens more women working in the legal sphere, Hafizi, who […]
Hunted by the men they jailed, Afghanistan’s women judges seek escape
The Hague, The NetherlandsReuters Afghanistan’s 250 women judges fear for their lives, with men they once jailed now freed by the victorious Taliban to hunt them down. While some women judges were able to flee in recent weeks, most were left behind and are still trying to get out, said judges and activists working around […]