Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is working with prosecutors nationwide to evacuate Afghan law professionals who have been targeted by the Taliban.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill leads other prosecutors from across the U.S. at a news conference in Salt Lake City announcing a fund to bring prosecutors and their families out of Afghanistan on Thursday, July 27, 2023.Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is working with prosecutors nationwide to evacuate Afghan law professionals who have been targeted by the Taliban, he announced Thursday.
in 2021, Gill said. Since then, 26 of these prosecutors and some of their family members have been tortured and killed. “Two years, that’s just not the time we have to afford,” she continued. “... Organizations are utilizing funds to be able to go in and get people out, get them to a safe place, and then we can go through the process of relocating them here permanently, if needed.”
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