‘My nightmares came true’: ex-prosecutor of Afghan women’s abusers

Negin overcame significant disadvantages to obtain her role but now fears those seeking revenge

The Taliban blighted *Negin's childhood with their ban on girls' education, but she overcame the late start to her schooling to become a senior prosecutor. Afghanistan's legal system was slow and often corrupt, but it offered women some hope of escaping abusers and seeing their tormentors jailed. Now she fears that some of those men, freed in a Taliban-orchestrated mass jailbreak last summer, want revenge.

My life was already affected by the Taliban long before they took over Afghanistan this summer. I only started school at 14, because they were in power in the 90s and did not allow girls to study. Once I could go to school, I graduated and went to university.

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