JK Rowling made secret donation to save female lawyers and their families in Afghanistan
JK Rowling made secret donation to save female lawyers in Afghanistan https://t.co/Uvazo5P5bW
- Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 27, 2023
On Thursday in a House of Lords debate it was revealed that J.K. Rowling and Lord Michael Hintze made a secret donation in August 2021 to rescue over a hundred female lawyers and their families from Afghanistan after America and Britain’s withdrawal.
“Lord David Alton told the chamber how the writer and Lord Hintze 'in a Schindler's list moment' came forward to help when veteran human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy needed money to rescue female lawyers - mainly judges - and their families.
Lord Alton said that, thanks to 'spontaneous, generous and very substantial' private funding; 'Some 500 people were evacuated - 103 were women lawyers, all of whom, with their children and husbands, were on Taliban kill lists.
'I have met some of the women judges and know that the noble Lord's intervention, and that of the author JK Rowling, undoubtedly saved many lives.'”
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