Hague: 250 Afghan women judge concerns to their lives, with men they have been imprisoned are now released by the Taliban who won to hunt them.
While some female judges can escape in recent weeks, most of them are left behind and still trying to come out, the judges said and activists worked all the time to help them escape.
Militants, who swept power last month because the United States attracted his troops, forbid women from most of the work when they last ruled the country 20 years ago.
They say women’s rights will be protected, but have not provided details.
Women who work in justice have become a high profile target.
Two Supreme Court Judges were shot down in January.
Now, the Taliban has released prisoners across the country, which “really places the lives of female judges in danger,” a high-level Afghan women judge who fled to Europe from an undisclosed location.
In Kabul, “Four or five Taliban members came and asked the people in my house: ‘Where is this female judge?’ These are the people I have in prison, “he told Reuters in an interview, who asked not to be identified.
He is among a small group of Afghan women judges have succeeded in the past few weeks with the help of collective human rights volunteers and foreigners in the International Association of Women’s Judge (Iawj).
Since then he has been related to colleagues back home: “their message is scared and complete terror.
They told me if they did not save their lives in direct danger.” In addition to the judges, there are about a thousand other human rights defenders who can also be in the Taliban cross, said Horia Mosadiq, an Afghan human rights activist.
Presented prisoners “called with the threat of death against female judges, female prosecutors and female police officers, said ‘we will come after you’,” he said.
Justice Minister Robert Buckland said last week London had evacuated nine female judges and worked to provide a safe passage for more than “very vulnerable people”.
“Many judges are responsible for managing legal supremacy and they really are afraid of the consequences that can now deal with the rise of Taliban,” he said.
Human rights and legal activists say Western countries do not evacuate female judges and human rights defenders as a priority in chaos after the kabul falls.
“The government has an interest in zero in evacuating people who are not their own citizens,” said Sarah Kay, a Human Rights lawyer based in Belfast and members of the ATLAS female network from international lawyers.
He worked with a group of online voluntary veterans known as “Dunkirk Digital,” named for World War two evacuation of British troops from France occupied by Nazi.
This has helped hundreds of people run away with the help of chat groups and personal contacts.
In Iawj, a team of six foreign judges has also coordinated information, lobbied the government and regulates evacuation.
“The responsibility we bear is almost unbearable at this time because we are one of the few people responsible for this group,” one of the leaders of effort, Patricia Whalen, an American judge who helped train Afghan female judges in 10 years of the program, to Reuters.
“I’m angry about that.
None of us must be in this position.”
Hunted by the people they were imprisoned, Afghan female judges looking for escape
