The "obstacle course" of Afghan women requesting transfer to Spain: years of waiting, "impossible" documents and judicial recourse
Spanish embassies in Iran and Pakistan are denying an increasing number of requests from victims of the Taliban, according to several NGOs.
Zahra was not an activist when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, five years ago. However, this young woman, whose identity is hidden under a false name, who was 22 at the time, went out into the street to demonstrate when those fundamentalists began to take away the rights of Afghan women: first, the right to education; shortly after, the right to work.
According to her account, during one of the protests, on September 4, 2021, Taliban intelligence agents put a black bag over her head, put her in a car, took her to a detention center, and kept her there kidnapped for three days. “They did everything to her,” summarizes María López, a lawyer for Netwomening, an association that provides assistance to Afghan women with international protection in Spain.
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