The woman Afghan reporter who talked to a Taliban main live on tv is now a refugee, after running away to Qatar.
Beheshta Arghand made history with the unanticipated exchange however left the nation after fearing for her life– and is now terrified that her household will be penalized rather.
The previous Tolo news speaker brought in star status after the interview on August 17, however left within days.
Speaking to the Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag and Qatar’s deputy foreign minister, Lolwah al-Khater, at a center in the capital Doha, she stated: ‘Because of me, my family will be threatened by the Taliban.’
Overcome by feeling after running away on August 24, she included: ‘Islam gave these rights to us, so why do the Taliban take them from us?’
Ms Arghand, 23, recommending her life had actually ended up being a headache about a week prior to the exchange made headings worldwide and just handled to get out with assistance from Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
‘I called Malala and asked her if she can do something for me,’ she discussed.
The education and ladies’s rights activist, who Ms Arghand had actually formerly spoken with, then assisted to get her on Qatar’s list of evacuees.
Malala, who has actually revealed issues for the security of ladies and ladies in specific after the take-over, made it through being shot by a Pakistani Taliban shooter in 2012, who targeted her after a project versus its efforts to reject ladies education.
Ms Arghand stated she selected her occupation in spite of the objections of her household and ultimately left Afghanistan with her mom, sis and siblings.
‘When I sat in the airplane, I told myself that now you don’ t have anything,’ she stated.
Speaking to diplomats at a huge complex real estate other Afghan refugees, she pleaded: ‘I wish to state to the global neighborhood– please do anything for Afghan ladies.
‘They must do as they promised’
The tv anchor had actually changed her headscarf to look more like a conventional close-fitting hijab when a Taliban authorities appeared, unwelcome, in her studio, asking to be spoken with.
Just 2 days after the Islamist group took control of Kabul, she states she rapidly looked down at her body to make certain no other skin was revealing and after that began asking concerns.
‘(Luckily) I always wear long clothes in the studio because we have different people with different minds’, Ms Arghand discussed.
She stated the Taliban purchased Tolo to implement all ladies using a hijab– carefully covering their heads however leaving the face exposed– and suspended female anchors on other stations.
Ms Arghand declared the Islamist group likewise asked regional media to stop discussing their takeover and their guideline.
‘When you can’ t (even) ask simple concerns, how can you be a reporter?’ she asked.
Her interview appears to have actually belonged to a more comprehensive Taliban media project trying to reveal a more moderate public face, in the middle of pledges to regard ladies’s rights.
But much of her associates had actually currently left the nation by the time of the interview– in spite of Taliban guarantees that liberty of the media was enhancing every day.
Recalling the interview, Ms Arghand discussed: ‘I saw that they came (to the tv station). I was surprised, I lost my control … I stated to myself that perhaps they pertained to ask why did I concern the studio.
‘Women – Taliban they don’ t accept. When a group of individuals do not accept you as a human, they have some image in their mind of you, it’s extremely tough.’
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