Share:Around 20 Afghan women who ran away from their abusive families or partners to a shelter in Afghanistan’s Pul-e-Kumri have been forced to leave the refuge after the Taliban seized power. When the Taliban seized power, the operator of the only women’s shelter in a northern Afghan city ran away. Left abandoned were 20 women who had fled a variety of domestic horrors, some abused by husbands or family, others forced into early marriages with older men. Soon after, the Taliban arrived at the shelter in the city of Pul-e-Kumri. They gave the women two options: Return to their abusive families — some of whom had threatened them with death for leaving — or go with the Taliban, recalled one of the women, Salima, who asked only that her first name be used.

Source: The Nation September 28, 2021 08:37 UTC