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Criminal

They Came for the Judges

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August of 2021, they unlocked the prisons and freed prisoners, some of whom sought revenge on the women judges who convicted them. We speak with some of the judges in today’s episode. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. On August 14th, 2021, Patricia Wayland sat down for a Zoom call with her friend Anisa Razzuli.

0:40.0

And as soon as I turned the camera on and I saw her face, I knew something was wrong.

0:51.0

Patricia Whelan was a judge in Vermont for almost 20 years. wrong. in Sarajevo. Her friend, Anisa Razzuli, is also a judge. She's been called

1:07.2

the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of Afghanistan, and she was the first woman to be

1:12.1

nominated to the Afghan Supreme Council.

1:15.0

And she just said to me, Patty, the Taliban are here. They're here. They're here in the city, and it's over.

1:27.5

And at that time, all the news reports,

1:30.0

if you remember, were all saying,

1:31.8

oh, you know,

1:32.8

know, there was time yet nothing, you know, the Taliban would be held off for

1:37.4

six months or you know, it just wasn't, the immediacy wasn't there.

1:43.0

And, you know, I said that to her.

1:45.0

I said I just listened to the news and they were saying that there's still months,

1:51.0

we have months to get ready for this.

1:53.2

And she said, no, we don't. They're here.

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