“They’ve promised to kill me”: Some 200 female Afghan lawyers and judges, unemployed and vulnerable to Taliban retribution, remain stuck in Kabul
Nabila worked for six years as a judge. Now, fearing for her life, she moves every three or four days from one house to another.
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