JK Rowling donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to save more than a hundred female lawyers and their families facing prosecution after the Taliban took control over the country in the aftermath of the 2021 U.S. evacuation. The author of the Harry Potter books made a huge donation towards the evacuation effort when Britain and the U.S. pulled out of the country, leaving hundreds of women judges, prosecutors and defence counsel under threat from the Taliban. JK Rowling secretly magicked up hundreds of thousands of pounds to save 100 female lawyers and their families facing murder in Afghanistan https://t.co/788seexUWv — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 28, 2023A dangerous time for female lawyersTrans activists’ attacksSo: in @NicolaSturgeon’s Scotland, trans women AREN’T women if they’re convicted double rapists, like Adam ‘Isla Bryson’ Graham. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/EQSC7azKyo — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 27, 2023source: Daily MailIn addition to Rowling’s donation, businessman and philanthropist Lord Michael Hintze also contributed a large sum of money, as did other prominent figures and members of the public. In total, the funds raised allowed 508 Afghans to be safely flown out of the country.The female lawyers and their families had to hide in basements before being smuggled to airports and flown to safety.

Source: Daily Mail January 28, 2023 11:29 UTC