Taliban “hunts” female judges


The Taliban...


If you had any illusions about just what kind of regime the Taliban represent, you may officially put them aside. According to several news-reports, the new Afghan government is “hunting” down female judges and may very well try to kill them. A woman in authority, and a judge to boot, is anathema to the Talibani, and apparently the jihadists are searching for them “door to door.”(1) (2)


The only small good news in this story is that an informal alliance of American female judges and other legal professionals have banded together in an heroic attempt to get these women out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. (3)  Let’s all wish them the very best of luck.




Sources 


1. See “Taliban Fighters Are Going Door-to-Door to Hunt Down Female Judges, Says Report

‘WE ARE IN DANGER’, by Barbie Latza Nadeau, Correspondent-At-Large, Aug 25, 2021, The Daily Beast, https://www.thedailybeast.com/taliban-fighters-are-going-door-to-door-to-hunt-down-female-judges-says-report


2. “Taliban threats, Biden’s deadline force stateside scramble to evacuate female Afghan judges: The judges were instrumental in helping build the country's judiciary after the fall of the Taliban. They now face death threats,” by Saphora Smith, Amin Hossein Khodadadi and Jason Abbruzzese, August 24, 2021, NBC, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-threats-bidens-deadline-force-stateside-scramble-evacuate-fema-rcna1750



3. See NBC, above. 

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