Survival

Inside a Taliban Prison: A Protester’s Story

Following the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Kabul, Narges Sadat took to the streets in protest along with other women. She faced violence and imprisonment, a story she recounts below. "This is...

“The Death of Hazaras Is Permissible”: Protesting the Taliban as a Minority Woman

After the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August of 2021, Tamana Rezaei took to the streets to demonstrate against rising gender apartheid in...

The Taliban’s Violence Ignited a Fierce Resistance Within Me

On August 21, Afghanistan’s de facto authorities formally published a 114-page document detailing the vice and virtue laws governing the private lives of women and men,...

Imprisoned & Tortured by the Taliban for Protesting Gender Apartheid

On August 15, 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban. Zholia Parsi, who was in Kabul at the time, had spent fourteen years as a...