The 250 women judges in the Afghanistan fear for their lives as men they once sent to prison have now been released from prison. Taliban and stalk them.
According to Reuters, some judges have managed to leave the country in recent weeks, but most have remained and are still trying to leave.
The Taliban, which seized power last month as the United States withdrew its troops, had banned women from practicing most professions when he was in power again, 20 years ago.
They have said they will protect them rights of women, but have not yet provided details.
Women working in the field of justice are already targets, the international agency reports. In January two female judges were shot dead of the Supreme Court.
The Taliban have now released detainees across the country, which “actually puts the lives of women judges in danger,” a senior Afghan judge who fled to Europe told Reuters, but did not say in which country.
In Kabul“Four or five Taliban members came to my house and asked, ‘Where is this judge?’ “They were people I had sent to prison,” she said in an interview with the same media outlet, asking not to be named.
This woman is one of the few Afghan women who in recent weeks managed to leave the country with the help of volunteer activists for human rights and foreign colleagues in the International Association of Women Judges.
Since then, she has been in contact with colleagues in her homeland: “Their messages are of fear and utter terror. They tell me that if they do not save them, their lives are found in immediate danger».
In addition to the judges, there are about a thousand other women, human rights defenders, which are also endangered by the Taliban, says Chorus Mosadik, an Afghan human rights activist.
The released prisoners “call threatening the lives of women judges, women prosecutors and women police officers telling them ‘we will chase you‘».
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