Afghan judges face revenge from Taliban terrorists they sent to jail
Catherine Baksi | Jonathan Ames, Legal Editor
Monday August 23 2021, 12.01am, The Times
Mourners at the funeral of one of two women members of the Afghan supreme court shot dead in January
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Afghan judges who sent Taliban terrorists and other criminals to jail should be evacuated to Britain, a former president of the Supreme Court has said.
In a letter to The Times, Baroness Hale of Richmond said "now that the prisons are being thrown open" the Afghan judiciary, and female judges in particular, "will be a target for revenge from the terrorists they convicted and sentenced".
Hale said that about 270 women had been serving as judges. "Their position has always been dangerous and will be even more so with the Taliban in charge," she wrote. She added that the women had "played a vital role in upholding the rule of law and the human rights of all Afghanis".
Judges and lawyers are thought to