Four Years After the Taliban's Return, Afghan Women Judges Go Deeper Underground

Four Years After the Taliban's Return, Afghan Women Judges Go Deeper Underground

The second meeting of the Assembly of Afghan Women Judges at the Supreme Court, 2013, Kabul. Their faces have been redacted by the author, a former Afghan judge who now resides in Britain. She writes about the worsening dangers faced by women jurists still living in Afghanistan from the Taliban. When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of their earliest, most devastating acts was to remove all women judges from their …