Women Judges in Afghanistan

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After September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that the United States military had launched attacks on Taliban targets in Afghanistan. The U.S. government and NATO tried to install a Western-style democracy during their 20-year occupation of the country. "It was dangerous to be a judge in Afghanistan, especially if you were a woman," she says.

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August of 2021, they unlocked the prisons and freed prisoners, some of whom sought revenge on the women judges who convicted them. We speak with some of the judges in today’s episode.

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