{"id":40759,"date":"2022-01-17T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/my-nightmares-came-true-ex-prosecutor-of-afghan-womens-abusers"},"modified":"2022-01-17T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:00:28","slug":"my-nightmares-came-true-ex-prosecutor-of-afghan-womens-abusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40759","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My nightmares came true\u2019: ex-prosecutor of Afghan women\u2019s abusers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negin overcame significant disadvantages to obtain her role but now fears those seeking revenge<\/p>\n<p><em>The Taliban blighted *Negin\u2019s childhood with their ban on girls\u2019 education, but she overcame <\/em><em>the late start to her schooling <\/em><em> to become a senior prosecutor. Afghanistan\u2019s legal system was slow and often corrupt, but it offered women some hope of escaping abusers and seeing their tormentors jailed. Now she fears that some of those men, freed in a Taliban-orchestrated mass jailbreak last summer, want revenge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My life was already affected by the Taliban long before they took over Afghanistan this summer. I only started school at 14, because they were in power in the 90s and did not allow girls to study. Once I could go to school, I graduated and went to university.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.ie\">jo@samaritans.ie<\/a>. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is <a href=\"tel:%28800%29%20273-8255\">1-800-273-8255<\/a>. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrienders.org\/\">www.befrienders.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/17\/my-nightmares-came-true-ex-prosecutor-of-afghan-womens-abusers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negin overcame significant disadvantages to obtain her role but now fears those seeking revengeThe Taliban blighted *Negin\u2019s childhood with their ban on girls\u2019 education, but she overcame the late start to her schooling  to become a senior prosecutor. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2801,"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":[46,319,717,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759","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\/2801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40830,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759\/revisions\/40830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}