{"id":57540,"date":"2023-08-14T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/14\/thousands-of-afghan-judges-and-legal-staff-remain-at-risk-post-taliban-takeover"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:00:06","slug":"thousands-of-afghan-judges-and-legal-staff-remain-at-risk-post-taliban-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57540","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Afghan judges and legal staff remain at risk post-Taliban takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years on, people who worked in the country\u2019s now-defunct legal system remain in grave danger from reprisals for their work<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/14\/hungry-hunted-terrified-unending-plight-of-the-afghan-women-who-served-in-military-and-police\">Hungry, hunted, terrified: unending plight of the Afghan women who served in military and police<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nearly 4,000 prosecutors and legal staff members face the threat of violence from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where at least 28 prosecutors and their families have reportedly been killed.<\/p>\n<p>When the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">seized back power in the country<\/a> in August 2021, Sara*, who was 28 at the time, was just a few weeks shy of completing three years serving as a prosecutor in the Afghan attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/14\/thousands-of-afghan-judges-and-legal-staff-remain-at-risk-post-taliban-takeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years on, people who worked in the country\u2019s now-defunct legal system remain in grave danger from reprisals for their workHungry, hunted, terrified: unending plight of the Afghan women who served in military and policeNearly 4,000 prosecutors and l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"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":[46,59,53,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/57540","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57541,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57540\/revisions\/57541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}