{"id":3741,"date":"2023-06-19T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2023-06-20T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T23:26:20","slug":"for-the-first-time-she-felt-hopeful-then-came-the-admission-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/en\/stories-en\/for-the-first-time-she-felt-hopeful-then-came-the-admission-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, she felt hopeful. 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Then came the admission stop.<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#ffffff;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;Merriweather&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>Kabul Luftbr\u00fccke<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:var(--awb-typography5-font-size);--awb-text-color:#ffffff;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;Merriweather&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>19. June 2023- 4 min read<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;width:100%;max-width:50%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:1.5rem;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" alt=\"Maryam: Zum ersten Mal sch\u00f6pfte sie Hoffnung. Dann kam der Aufnahmestopp.\" title=\"maryam_hoffnung_cropped\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped.webp\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped-200x133.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped-600x400.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped-800x533.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped-1200x800.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.kabulluftbruecke.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/maryam_hoffnung_cropped.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#ffffff;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;Merriweather&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the Taliban took power, Maryam Mozaffari (name changed) had been a department head in an Afghan Government agency, working on gender equality. She organized events to promote women&#8217;s rights, developed training units and networked with other women leaders in politics in the Afghan parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryam is a trained lawyer. Before working in the Afghan Government, she defended women affected by domestic violence. On the side, she taught rule of law courses for police officers and prosecutors in a project coordinated by European Union Police Mission EUPOL and the German development organization GIZ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Taliban\u2019s takeover of the country changed everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I was always the provider in our family. My children, my mother, my younger siblings depend on me financially, I earned for them too. Now the Taliban are forcing me to hide at home,&#8221; she describes. &#8220;I sometimes find it difficult to look my family in the eye, we are doing badly and I can hardly do anything.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>She narrowly survived a Taliban attack and is still being threatened<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even before the Taliban took power, Maryam was threatened and attacked by local Taliban networks. Her predecessor at the government agency was assassinated by a car bomb. There was also an attack on Maryam; she survived by luck. For her work in the Afghan Government and with GIZ, she received numerous threat messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryam and her family went into hiding immediately after the Taliban took power. She later learned that her house and car had been confiscated. The Taliban also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">searched for her at her relatives\u2019 houses and sent her death threats on WhatsApp.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Maryam has changed her phone number and has moved house several times. Still, the threats continue to follow her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Just a few days ago I received a call from an unknown number, someone insulted and threatened me in Pashto. He said they would find me and kill me,&#8221; she reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly after the Taliban took power, Maryam and her family tried to flee to Pakistan &#8211; irregularly, because they could not afford the visas. Their attempt was unsuccessful, and they had to turn back. &#8220;An Afghan border guard intercepted us, he beat my husband and son. He realized we were Hazara, insulted us and sent us back.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, Maryam and her family have been hiding at various addresses. Occasionally, she is able to work online for a foreign organization. But her income is not enough to support the family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t live in Afghanistan anymore, I&#8217;m scared day and night,&#8221; she says. &#8220;But we can&#8217;t flee to a neighboring country either. It&#8217;s dangerous to migrate illegally to Pakistan or Iran. And even if we make it,&#8221; she adds, &#8220;we don&#8217;t know where we&#8217;ll find shelter and what we&#8217;ll live from over there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>For a year, Maryam searches for help. Then she finds hope&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryam has been keeping in touch for years with Cornelia Taylor, her former German colleague at EUPOL, who now works for another international organization. Cornelia has written numerous emails for her, with pages of dossiers, photos, supporting documents. For almost a year, she received no response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite her good contacts, Cornelia can&#8217;t find anyone willing to take up the case of Maryam, even though her activity as a women&#8217;s rights activist and former high-ranking government official is well documented. Eventually, an employee at Kabul Luftbr\u00fccke comes across Maryam\u2019s case, and she registers her with the German Government&#8217;s federal admission program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I wish I could tell all Afghans who are acutely at risk, like Maryam, that it&#8217;s worth the wait, that sooner or later there will be a way for them to at least apply for an admission program. If not directly to the government, then through us,&#8221; says Therese Herrmann from Kabul Luftbr\u00fccke. &#8220;But that&#8217;s not true. We had over 40,000 cases in our database last year; Maryam was simply lucky that we came across her. It takes a lot of work to prepare a case for submission to an admission program. We can only do that for very few cases.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Maryam finally found a way to submit her case to an admission program, she is contacted by a service provider for the German Government after a relatively short time. Her case has been shortlisted. All the documents about her work and endangerment Maryam had submitted had finally made a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We were often on the verge of fleeing to a neighboring country despite the illegality and lack of economic prospects. We can&#8217;t live here anymore,&#8221; Maryam says. &#8220;But the prospect of being able to get into the German Government&#8217;s admission program gave me hope.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then came the admission stop, in March 2023, with no prior notice.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\u2026until the admission stop.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Maryam took it very stoically,&#8221; Therese from Kabul Luftbr\u00fccke says.&#8221;She just said, &#8216;What choice do we have, we have to accept this, and wait.'&#8221; &#8220;Yet she had to change her residence again just <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weeks ago because of new threats.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornelia, her former colleague, puts it differently: &#8220;I really feel sick when I think about the possible consequences of the delays. A family that could live in peace and freedom, who has so much to contribute to the society they live in&#8221;, she says. &#8220;Or a completely destroyed family, without a mother, without income and without safety.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>For the first time, she felt hopeful. 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