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They Came for the Judges

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The Taliban's Takeover of the Supreme Court in Kabul

When the Taliban entered Kabul, they freed all the prisoners in the main Kabul prison from Yachri. Judge Whalen remembers that on the second day of the takeover, she heard from a judge who had presided over a case where a member of the Taliban had killed his wife. That kind of threat we saw that day and every day after, and that's still going on in Afghanistan, they're terrified.

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