When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she burned every document in her home and went into hiding. Then she fled the country.
Like dozens more women working in the legal sphere, Hafizi, who handled cases for the Counter Narcotics Justice Centre, was chased out of Afghanistan by the men they had jailed, now freed from prison by the insurgents.
Now they are stuck in limbo, without work and only a few belongings, and face months of bureaucracy before reaching their final destination elsewhere in Europe.Afghan women made great strides in the two decades since the Taliban ruled the country from 1996-2001, joining previously all-male bastions such as the judiciary, the media and politics.
"I would ask the international community to not recognise the Taliban," Hafizi said. "What they say is different to what they do." For months Hafizi feared for her life, taking a different route to work every day after two Supreme Court women judges were killed by unidentified gunmen in January. "The criminals who were captured, I delivered their judgment. They knew me and I was under threat," she said.
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