Afghan Women Activists Speak of Hell in Taliban Prisons
More than four years after the Taliban seized power, repression against women in Afghanistan has not eased — it has hardened into a system.
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February 1, 2026
More than four years after the Taliban seized power, repression against women in Afghanistan has not eased — it has hardened into a system.
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”.