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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Miranda Bryant

Afghan female judge fleeing Taliban appeals after Home Office refuses UK entry

Afghans walk on the tarmac towards a plane
The woman’s lawyers believe an admin error meant she was not called forward during the original evacuation. Photograph: Etat Major Des Armees/AFP/Getty Images

A female former senior judge from Afghanistan who is in hiding from the Taliban with her son has filed an appeal to the Home Office after her application to enter the UK was denied.

Lawyers for the woman – who is named as “Y” – said on Saturday they had submitted an appeal on behalf of their client and her son at the Immigration Tribunal, saying she had been left in a “gravely vulnerable position” by the withdrawal of British and other western troops.

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