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ABC News
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National
By Housnia Shams

Afghan women barred from working in their fields by the Taliban restart careers in Australia

After spending nearly a decade working as a judge in Kabul, Farah Attahee is grappling with the difficulties of starting her life from scratch in Sydney. 

In Afghanistan, she was involved in sentencing Taliban members and other criminals, many of whom were freed after the group seized control in August last year. 

With her life in danger, Mrs Attahee was evacuated from Kabul along with her husband and three children, before their arrival in Australia nine months ago.

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