“We have to stand up for ourselves. Sometimes it’s hard because we are thinking of our families and of people who are close to us, but if we censor ourselves, then they will 100 percent censor us.”
Women walk past a beauty salon, just before Kabul fell to the Taliban. Photo: Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images The power was out in Madina’s home near Kabul, so her family was forced to gather around her phone to learn what Afghanistan’s new rulers had in store for them. A friend had sent her a video of the Taliban’s spokesman, speaking at the group’s first press conference in 20 years after it seized control of the capital, the final prize in its countrywide takeover.
Like many female journalists, she was holding her breath to see if such a career were even possible after the Taliban spoke. “We have been waiting to hear this,” she said. Others affiliated with American missions, such as translators and interpreters, must rely on the frustrating U.S. Special Immigrant Visas program, which started stalling months ago. It requires applicants to be referred by U.S. agencies, senior U.S. officials, nongovernment bodies, or media outlets. Volunteers from across the world are teaming up in private-chat groups to help Afghans get their applications sent off and acquire the referral letters.
Madina said it doesn’t particularly matter where she goes. “We are applying to any country, not even choosing the country where our new lives will be. We will go anywhere kind enough to take us and we will start our life again.” “I wish I could be out there on the streets with my colleagues. It is frustrating,” Madina said, adding that a friend found her name on a purported list circulating on social media earlier this year of people the Taliban wants to kill. “This is why my mother does not want me to report now.”
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