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Afghanistan: Taliban Continue Crackdown on Lawyers, Judges & Human Rights Defenders

IAPL

A human rights defender who spoke to Amnesty International emphasized that “journalists, activists and anti-Taliban intellectuals, writers/artists, female journalists, former police, army, and intelligence officers, as well as female athletes, judges, advocates and singers, are all at immediate risk”

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https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/world-news-taliban-continue-crack-down-on-human-rights-defenders-3048249.html

https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/taliban-continue-crack-down-on-human-rights-defenders20211112170154/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-women-lawyers-run-face-life-limbo-abroad-2021-10-25/

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/12/headlines/5_000_afghan_refugees_fleeing_to_iran_every_day_as_humanitarian_crisis_worsens

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/rbg-afghanistan-other-women-judges-honored-amid-taliban-threat-2021-11-12/

https://www.indiablooms.com/world-details/SA/32102/afghanistan-taliban-govt-announces-to-form-military-court.html

https://news.yahoo.com/justice-delayed-taliban-build-legal-020043196.html