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This lawyer has brought 40 families out of Afghanistan

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Anusha, Ati, Aqila, María José and Uranus

Benito Rodríguez - published on 09/23/22
The number of women who want to leave Afghanistan is incalculable. Maria José asks us not to forget them.

It was August 20, 2021. The Taliban took Kabul after the general retreat of international troops. A lawyer named María José Rodriguez Beceda was in Madrid following the news. She got a WhatsApp notification. In one of the groups she belongs to, someone was asking for help for two Afghan sisters under threat.

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