By Somaia Walizadeh A young man dares to tell his story of abuse in an Afghan prison—a quiet testimony of pain, resilience, and the silence that surrounds Afghanistan’s queer community.…
By Somaia Walizadeh Transgender is denied in Afghanistan. Somaia Walizadeh talked to Eleni in Kabul, a transgender woman facing abuse in detention and by internal family punishments. A Hidden Identity…
When the Taliban took Kabul, Dayana Daneshwar’s life shrank to a series of calculated escapes — from her own home, from neighbours’ threats, from the stares that followed her everywhere. People linked to the Taliban called her “non-Muslim”.