Thousands of Afghan judges and legal staff remain at risk post-Taliban takeover

Two years on, people who worked in the country's now-defunct legal system remain in grave danger from reprisals for their work

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Nearly 4,000 prosecutors and legal staff members face the threat of violence from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where at least 28 prosecutors and their families have reportedly been killed.

When the Taliban seized back power in the country in August 2021, Sara*, who was 28 at the time, was just a few weeks shy of completing three years serving as a prosecutor in the Afghan attorney general's office.