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‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran
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More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking education elsewhere
Relief set in the moment Hasina crossed the border into Iran. For two years, the Taliban barred the 24-year-old medical student from continuing her studies. Now, as part of a growing exodus of Afghan women who desperately want an education, Hasina is pursuing her degree in Tehran.
“I was terrified the Taliban would prevent me from leaving,” she says. Last year, they stopped 100 female Afghan students boarding a flight to take up places at university in the United Arab Emirates where they had won scholarships.
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