{"id":38341,"date":"2021-10-25T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/the-most-difficult-journey-of-my-life-an-afghan-familys-escape-to-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-10-25T23:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:00:41","slug":"the-most-difficult-journey-of-my-life-an-afghan-familys-escape-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38341","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The most difficult journey of my life\u2019: an Afghan family\u2019s escape to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of just six female judges who have so far managed to reach Britain speaks of fleeing Kabul and finding refuge in Manchester<\/p>\n<p>The day the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul\">Taliban arrived in Kabul<\/a>, Dina* went to her office in the city\u2019s law courts as normal. It was deserted. \u201cOnly the cleaner was there,\u201d the 41-year-old supreme court judge remembers. \u201cThe cleaner said: what are you doing here? Go home!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dina gathered as many legal papers and personal documents as she could carry and drove back to the four-storey home she shared with her husband and three children. There, she scanned in the most important bits of paper and burned the lot on her roof terrace. It was painful watching evidence of everything she worked so hard to achieve going up in flames.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/25\/the-most-difficult-journey-of-my-life-an-afghan-familys-escape-to-the-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of just six female judges who have so far managed to reach Britain speaks of fleeing Kabul and finding refuge in ManchesterThe day the Taliban arrived in Kabul, Dina* went to her office in the city\u2019s law courts as normal. It was deserted. \u201cOnly the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,717,2399,494,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-manchester","category-refugees","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38342,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38341\/revisions\/38342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}