In January 2021, Qadria Yasini - a judge on Afghanistan's Supreme Court - left for work in Kabul with a colleague, Zakia Herawi.
Three men waited until they were in their government-supplied car - and shot them dead.
It terrified the small network of female judges in the country.
But it was nothing compared to what was to come just seven months later. When Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021 it happened so quickly they were left behind in the chaos to be hunted.
Remarkably, it was a network of global female judges who stepped in to help them.
The International Association of Women Judges - people like New Zealand's Justice Susan Glazebrook - worked to find and help evacuate the Afghan judges from Afghanistan.
This incredible story has been told by British journalist Karen Bartlett in her book Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance.
