They were the pioneers of ladies' privileges in Afghanistan. They were the resolute protectors of the law, looking for equity for their nation's most underestimated. Yet, presently, in excess of 220 female Afghan adjudicators are secluded from everything because of dread of requital under Taliban rule. Six previous female adjudicators addressed the BBC from secret areas across Afghanistan. Each of their names have been changed for their security.
All through her profession as an appointed authority, Masooma has indicted hundreds for men for viciousness against ladies, including assault, murder and torment.
Be that as it may, only days after the Taliban assumed responsibility for her city and large number of sentenced lawbreakers were let out of jail, the passing dangers started.
Instant messages, voice notes and obscure numbers started assaulting her telephone.
"It was 12 PM when we heard the Taliban had liberated every one of the detainees from prison," says Masooma.
"Promptly we escaped. We abandoned our home and everything."
In the beyond 20 years, 270 ladies have sat as judges in Afghanistan. As probably the most remarkable and conspicuous ladies in the country, they are known people of note.
"Going via vehicle out of the city, I wore a burka, so nobody would remember me. Luckily, we made it past all the Taliban designated spots."
Soon after they left, her neighbors messaged her to say a few individuals from the Taliban had shown up at her old house.
Masooma says that when they portrayed the men, she realized who was searching for her.
A while back, before the Taliban takeover, Masooma was administering over a case exploring an individual from the gathering for mercilessly killing his significant other.
After seeing him as liable, Masooma condemned the man to 20 years in jail.
"I can in any case see the picture of that young lady to me. It was a severe wrongdoing," says Masooma.
"After the case was finished, the criminal moved toward me and said: 'When I escape jail, I will do to you how I dealt with my better half.'
"At the time I didn't approach him in a serious way. Yet, since the Taliban took power, he has called me ordinarily and said he has taken all of my data from the court workplaces.
"He advised me: 'I will see you and have my vengeance.'"
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Something like 220 previous female appointed authorities are known to presently be secluded from everything across Afghanistan, a BBC examination has found.
Addressing six previous appointed authorities from various regions, their declarations of the beyond five weeks were practically indistinguishable.
All have gotten passing dangers from individuals from the Taliban whom they recently dedicated to jail. Four named explicit men whom they condemned for killing their spouses.
All have changed their telephone number once due to getting demise dangers.
They are for the most part at present living secluded from everything, moving areas at regular intervals.
They all additionally said their previous homes had been visited by individuals from the Taliban. Their neighbors and companions announced being addressed with regards to their whereabouts.
In light of the allegations, Taliban representative Bilal Karimi told the BBC: "Female appointed authorities should live like some other family unafraid. Nobody ought to undermine them. Our unique military units are obliged to explore such grievances and act in case there is an infringement."
He additionally rehashed the Taliban's guarantee of a "general pardon" for all previous government laborers across Afghanistan: "Our overall acquittal is earnest. However, on the off chance that some wish to document a case to leave the country, our solicitation is that they don't do this and they stay in their country."
During the mass arrival of detainees, numerous hoodlums not related with the Taliban were likewise delivered.
Concerning the security of female appointed authorities, Mr Karimi likewise said:
"On account of medication dealers, mafia individuals, we will likely annihilate them. Our activity against them will be not kidding."
As profoundly taught ladies, these adjudicators were beforehand the principle provider for their families. Be that as it may, presently, with their pay rates halted and their ledgers frozen, they have all been diminished to living impromptu outs from their family members.
For over thirty years, Judge Sanaa researched instances of savagery against ladies and kids.
She says most of her cases included sentencing individuals for the Taliban just as assailant bunch Isis.
"I have gotten in excess of 20 compromising calls from previous detainees who have now been delivered."
She is as of now secluded from everything with in excess of twelve relatives.
Just once has one of her male family members got back to their previous family home. However, as he was pressing some garments, the Taliban showed up at the house in a few vehicles loaded with outfitted men, driven by an officer.
"I opened the entryway. They found out if this was the adjudicator's home," he says. "At the point when I said I didn't have the foggiest idea where she was, they tossed me on the steps. One of them hit me with the handle of his firearm and began beating me. My nose and mouth were canvassed in blood."
After the equipped men left, Sanaa's relative took himself to clinic.
"I told another overall we should continue to change the house where my sister is remaining. There could be no alternate way out at this point. We can't get away to some other nation, even Pakistan."
Battling for ladies' privileges
For quite a long time, Afghanistan has kept on positioning as probably the hardest country on the planet. As per Human Rights Watch, an expected 87% of ladies and young ladies will encounter maltreatment during their lifetime.
However, this local area of judges, by attempting to maintain the country's previous laws which intended to help ladies, have assisted with upholding for the possibility that savagery against ladies and young ladies is a culpable criminal offense.
This incorporates charging people in instances of assault, torment, constrained marriage, just as in situations where ladies were denied from possessing property or going to work or school.
As the absolute most conspicuous female well known individuals in their country, every one of the six say they have confronted provocation all through their vocations, some time before the Taliban took full control.
"I needed to serve my nation, that is the reason I turned into an appointed authority," says Asma, talking from a protected house.
"In the family undertakings court, I managed cases including ladies who needed a separation or partition from individuals from the Taliban.
"This represented a genuine danger to us. Once, the Taliban even dispatched rockets at the court.
"We likewise lost probably our closest companion and judges. She vanished coming back from work. Just later was her body found."
Nobody was at any point charged for the vanished adjudicator's homicide. At that point, nearby Taliban pioneers denied any inclusion.
How draconian Afghanistan's new administration will respect ladies' privileges is still yet to completely unfurl. Yet, so far the standpoint is dreary.
An all-male acting bureau with no arrangement to manage ladies' issues has as of now been reported, while in schools, the instruction service has requested male instructors and understudies return to work, however not female staff or understudies.
In the interest of the Taliban, Mr Karimi said he couldn't yet remark on whether there would be jobs for female adjudicators later on: "The functioning conditions and openings for ladies are as yet being talked about."
Up until this point, in excess of 100,000 individuals have been emptied from the country.
Each of the six adjudicators say they are right now searching for an exit plan - however in addition to the fact that they lack admittance to reserves, they say not all individuals from their close families have visas.
Previous Afghan adjudicator Marzia Babakarkhail, who currently lives in the UK, has been upholding for the dire departure of all previous female appointed authorities.
She says it's significant not to fail to remember those living in Afghanistan's most rustic territories a long way from the nation's capital, Kabul.
"It makes me extremely upset when I get a call from one of the adjudicators from the towns saying: 'Marzia, how would it be advisable for us to respond? Where would it be advisable for us to go? We will be in our graves soon.'
"There is still some admittance to the media and the web in Kabul. The adjudicators there still have some voice, yet in the provincial territories, they don't have anything."
"A large number of these adjudicators don't have a visa or the right desk work to apply to leave. However, they can't be neglected. They are additionally in grave peril."
A few nations, including New Zealand and the United Kingdom, have said they will offer some help. Be that as it may, when this assist will with showing up or the number of judges it will incorporate is yet to be affirmed.
Judge Masooma says she fears such guarantees of help won't show up on schedule.
"Here and there I think, what is our wrongdoing? Being instructed? Attempting to help ladies and rebuff lawbreakers?
"I love my country. Yet, presently I am a detainee. We have no cash. We can't take off from the house.
"I take a gander at my young child and I don't have the foggiest idea how to disclose to him why he can't converse with different youngsters or work out in the corridor. He's as of now damaged.
"I can possibly petition God for the day when we will be fre
