{"id":669202,"date":"2022-05-24T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/afghan-female-judge-awarded-prestigious-human-rights-prize"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T12:40:11","slug":"afghan-female-judge-awarded-prestigious-human-rights-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/24\/afghan-female-judge-awarded-prestigious-human-rights-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan female judge awarded prestigious human rights prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fawzia Amini advocates for rights of Afghan women and girls from London hotel room she\u2019s been stuck in for nine months<\/p><p>One of Afghanistan\u2019s top female judges has been honoured with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZlohdOGXi4\">international human rights award<\/a> while she continues her work to advocate for her country\u2019s women and girls from a London hotel.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/the-afghan-judge-working-to-free-her-sisters-left-behind\">Fawzia Amini,<\/a> 48, fled Afghanistan last summer after the Taliban takeover of the country. She had been one of Afghanistan\u2019s leading female judges, former head of the legal department at the Ministry of Women, senior judge in the supreme court, and head of the violence against women court.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/afghan-female-judge-awarded-prestigious-human-rights-prize\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/afghan-female-judge-awarded-prestigious-human-rights-prize\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fawzia Amini advocates for rights of Afghan women and girls from London hotel room she\u2019s been stuck in for nine monthsOne of Afghanistan\u2019s top female judges has been honoured with an international human rights award while she continues her work to advo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,2114,6,3055,640,238,2038,4731,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669203,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669202\/revisions\/669203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}