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She fled Afghanistan with her law degree sewn into her dress. Many of her colleagues were left behind | CNN

She fled Afghanistan with her law degree sewn into her dress. Many of her colleagues were left behind | CNN

London CNN  —  When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage, sexual assault and femicide. Last August, as the Taliban stormed Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, they shuttered …

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