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Interviews and Media Appearances

The Struggles of Afghan Female Judges and Prosecutors Under Taliban Rule

Manara Magazine

April 3, 2025

Women from Afghanistan: Evacuating female judges

DW Asia

March 9, 2024

'No Hope' for Women in Afghanistan Two Years into Taliban Rule, Says Former Judge

Sky News

August 15, 2023

Afghan Women Judges Trapped in the Country Are Desperately Seeking Sanctuary

PassBlue

June 13, 2023

Former Female Judges Launch Campaign to Evacuate At-Risk Colleagues from Afghanistan

Afghanistan International

April 10, 2023

I Am Scared of My Shadow’: Afghan Judge Living in Fear of Taliban Denied Sanctuary in Britain

Independent

March 21, 2023

Former Afghan judge Marzia Babakarkhail tells #KayBurley about the time the Taliban tried to kill her

Sky News

January 16, 2023

Female Judge Remains Trapped in Afghanistan, Pleads for International Support

Orato World Media

August 15, 2022

Former Refugee from Afghanistan to Stand as Oldham Council Candidate

Oldham Times

January 26, 2022

More than 200 women judges are in hiding in Afghanistan fearing the men they put in prison who are now free to take revenge

Times Radio

September 29, 2021

Brave women judges and prosecutors who sent Taliban, terrorists and criminals to prison are at serious risk in Afghanistan

Joanna Cherry KC

September 14, 2021

Female Judge Forced To Flee Taliban Warns Women Are Being Followed for Taking Part in Protests

Huff Post UK

September 9, 2021

Afghanistan Has Changed, Women Will Fight Back

The Asian Age

August 26, 2021

Marzia Babakarkhail fled Afghanistan in 2008 and is now a successful women's rights activist

BBC Radio 5 Live

August 19, 2021

Their Lives Will Be Threatened Just Like Mine’—a Judge Who Fled the Taliban Fears for Women

ITV

August 17, 2021

Judge Escaped Taliban in War-Torn Afghanistan to Set Up New Life in Oldham

Manchester Evening News

June 20, 2021

Judge Who Was Target of Assassination Attempt Wins Woman of the Year Honour

Asian Image

May 19, 2017

Taliban Increases Level of Cruelty and Barbarism Against the Women of Afghanistan

Orato World Media

September 23, 2024

Marzia Babakarkhail (Afganistán), jueza y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres

efeminista

March 8, 2024

Afghan Women Judges Urge World to Help After Taliban Death Threats

Context

May 3, 2023

Female Judges in Afghanistan Seek Resettlement

RN Breakfast Podcast, ABC Radio Nation

March 29, 2023

She Put Taliban Members Behind Bars for Their Crimes. Now She’s in Fear for Her Life—and the UK Won’t Help

Independent

February 25, 2023

The United Nations Considers Afghanistan One of the Worst Humanitarian Crises in the World

Aljazeera

August 15, 2022

Former Judge to Stand in Controversial Council Ward

Neil Wilby Media

January 24, 2022

Female Afghan Judges Hunted by the Murderers They Convicted

BBC News

September 28, 2021

My Country Is Burning

Sky News

September 11, 2021

If I Don’t Hear from Her Again, She Will Have Been Killed: Afghan Judge Who Fled to Oldham Flooded with Hundreds of Messages from Terrified Women in Her Home Country

Manchester Evening News

August 28, 2021

The Taliban Tried to Murder Her Twice. Decades Later, She Watches as the Terror Returns

Yahoo News

August 23, 2021

My Friend Marzia Babakarkhail—a Former Judge in Afghanistan—Says Words are Cheap

Parliamentary Speech, United Kingdom

August 18, 2021

Oldham’s Marzia Babakarkhail on Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan

Oldham Times

August 17, 2021

Former Refugee and Oldham Resident Honoured by British Red Cross

Oldham Times

June 18, 2021

Ex-Judge Pleads: ‘Let Asylum Seekers Work

Oldham-Chronicle

January 23, 2017

Former Female Judge in Afghanistan Still in Hiding over Two Years Later: Our Family Lives Deteriorate with Each Day That Passes

Orato World Media

November 12, 2023

I Am Trying to Find Peace’: An Afghan Judge Who Fled the Taliban Starts Life Over in Canada

The Toronto Star

July 19, 2023

Files from Exile: Qazi (Judge) Marzia Babakarkhail on Women and Justice in Afghanistan

Manara Magazine

April 27, 2023

The Campaigner Helping Female Judges Flee Afghanistan

RN Breakfast Podcast, ABC Radio Nation

March 28, 2023

Afghan Women Share What Their Lives Are Really Like Under the Taliban

Express

January 24, 2023

'The Taliban tried to kill me twice'

Sky News

August 18, 2022

Afghan Judge, Activist Survives Taliban Assassination Attempts to Run for Office in UK

Orato World Media

April 13, 2022

Female Judges in Afghanistan Are Under Immense Threat

Parliamentary Speech, United Kingdom

September 16, 2021

Afghan Women Judges Still Trapped in the Country Desperately Need Sanctuary

BBC World Service

September 9, 2021

Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai’s Whispered Voice Notes and Dramatic Escape

BBC News

August 27, 2021

Ex-Afghanistan Judge Qazi Marzia Babakarkhail Cries Persecution by Taliban

India Today

August 21, 2021

“The Taliban are not the kind of people you can believe”

BBC News (World)

August 18, 2021

Oldham Refugee Who Fled Afghanistan After Taliban Twice Tried to Kill Her Says the ‘Country Is Burning—and All Women Are in the Fire

Manchester Evening News

August 16, 2021

We Are Power

Northern Power Women

July 18, 2017

 

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