Under Taliban rule, female judges in Afghanistan are said to have been tortured and threatened with death. Hundreds of people were forced into hiding, worried that those they had been convicted of would now seek revenge after their prison terms were released.
BBC Newsnight’s Sima Kotecha spoke exclusively to female judges who had just arrived in the UK as part of a government rescue mission organized by Baroness Kennedy and the International Bar Association.
The BBC does not use their names for the safety of those they have left behind.
