The women, who were vital in upholding the equal rights of women and girls, were 'terrified for their lives' and receiving 'threats on their phones' after the Afghan government fell.
dismantled it all - with foot soldiers storming her office in August as she fled. The legal system they built has been scrapped, hundreds like Fawzia were forced into hiding.
"I'm very sad now, because our judicial system is not better now, it's sad for me and for other judges, it's very sad. When Kabul fell to the Taliban, the prisons were opened and the men the judges had prosecuted were freed once more. Amid the desperate evacuation effort in Kabul, the lawyers in the UK set out their own plan to rescue the women.Australia, Ireland and Britain are among the countries taking in the families.
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