voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. in august 2021, the taliban shocked the world as they swept to power in afghanistan. it wasn't long before they began to crack down on the rights of women. last year, i met with activist tamana paryani, who'd been involved in a protest in kabul. after daring to raise her voice, the taliban came in the middle of the night

to arrest her. although she was later released, she went into hiding. at the time, it was too dangerous for us to broadcast her testimony. now she has escaped and she's ready to tell her extraordinary story. kabul, june 2022. afghanistan is now the only country in the world where female education is forbidden.

reports have been emerging of women standing up for their rights being forcibly disappeared. i wanted to meet tamana, who'd been arrested earlier in the yearforjoining a protest against the new taliban leaders. tamana managed to film a video and upload it to facebookjust before being taken away. i wanted to see the apartment she'd been taken from and see if i could speak to any of the neighbours about what happened that night.

shortly after they were arrested, a family member managed to get into the apartment and film the aftermath. months on, the signs of forced entry were still visible on the door. tamana was taken, along with her four sisters, but the videos she had uploaded had started to go viral. there are growing concerns for women in afghanistan protesting against the curbing of their rights under the taliban. tamana paryani was taken from her apartment by armed men. world leaders were outraged. human rights organisations immediately condemned and demanded their release. i quizzed the taliban directly on my show about the case.

i managed to get a message through to tamana and she agreed to meet me in a safe house the next day. after she'd been released from prison, she went into hiding with herfamily, fearing the taliban would be back again. there was a suspicion that the house was being watched. 25—year—old tamana had come to the attention of the authorities for organising a string of protests demanding women's rights in kabul. injanuary 2022, she had

organised a march to raise questions about the disappearance of a female prison officer, alia azizi. tamana and her four sisters covered a traditional afghan burqa in streaks of fake blood.

three days later, the taliban came to their apartment.

during their time in prison, 18—year—old karishma told of repeated abuse by the taliban guards. during the three weeks they were being held, their mother tried to track them down.

eventually, the taliban released the four women in february 2022, but not without a final warning. they were banned from leaving the country and had their passports taken away. they were also threatened that if they spoke with the media, theirfather and brother would be arrested. in total, there were 32 women arrested in a series of raids on female activists in january across the country. since then, tamana has moved from house to house, relying on the good will of others to keep her hidden.

tamana wore a full niqab to stay hidden when changing location.

the car in front is what tamana is using to get to the next location. we're going through multiple taliban checkpoints and i can imagine it's quite nerve—racking for her. the safe house was on the other side of town. the owner did not want to be identified for his safety, but agreed to speak with me. we've just arrived here with tamana. she's crossed kabul to get here to safety. just tell me why you've allowed her to come here.

when the taliban came to power, and knowing what you know about her steeliness, her determination, were you worried? tamana's experience is like so many other female activists in the country. so many of them have been driven out, pushed out of the public eye. they now feel trapped inside their homes in this very suffocating environment. and it's unclear what their future will be.

there seems to be like a pattern emerging — women coming out demanding their rights, the taliban intimidating and detaining some of them, and then the women being too afraid to come out and speak up again. and this is exactly what's happened to tamana. it was time for me to leave kabul. tamana and herfamily were starting to see there was no future for them in afghanistan. months later, i received a message from her. she and her sisters were on the move to the eastern border with pakistan. they filmed themselves dressing in local clothes to blend in.

tamana had paid a network of smugglers to get her family out of the country. they split into two groups, with her parents and younger siblings going on their own, and tamana with three of her sisters.

the four women were detained by the taliban when trying to cross the border in eastern afghanistan, the guards telling them that if they were to try this again, worse things would happen. they were sent back to kabul.

tamana and her entire family made it across the border to pakistan. but just as i was finalising my plans to meet them there... they're on a plane to germany. i travelled to meet them in germany, where they were living in temporary accommodation just outside of cologne.

i arrived just in time for lunch. they're just complaining about the food. when they first arrived, there were a lot of sausages, they wanted hot afghan food. tamana's friend nadia joined us. she'd been instrumental in getting the family to europe.

the foreign office agreed to transfer tamana's family to germany. they're now waiting for their asylum application to be processed. tamana and zarmina took me for a walk around their new village.

the family had been in germany forjust over a week and were starting to process the challenges they now faced. nadia wanted to take the sisters into cologne to visit the city centre.

like her sister, tamana has no plans to step back from her activism.

since we filmed with tamana, she and her sisters have staged protests in amsterdam against the taliban rule. they have vowed to continue. hello there. i think it's fair to say the weekend started on a very mixed note. now, there were some areas of rain across the uk but other places that stayed entirely dry and sunny. look at this band of rain in southern scotland. underneath that, drumalbin

in lanark only got to eight degrees. while it's not that far away, in stirlingshire, basking in the sunshine, tyndrum had a high of 17 celsius, so a massively different feel to the weather on saturday over a relatively short distance. sunday's chart still has low pressure firmly in charge. there will be more rain around. that low moves eastwards and then, early next week, we'll get northerly winds. and look where those winds come from — pretty much the north pole — so, needless to say, the weather will be getting quite a bit cooler over the next few days. now, over the next few hours, we've still got a bit of rain in northern ireland. that's turning lighter and patchier in nature. northern scotland turning wet here with some stronger north—easterly winds developing and we've got some heavier rain just skirting along the south of england. so, there are some areas of rain, other areas stay dry, but a lot of cloud around. temperatures, 4—10 degrees as we start off sunday. now, we've got that fairly persistent rain that's going to be with us most of the day for northern scotland. it will feel chilly here on account of those gusty northerly winds. heavy rain across southern england extending into east anglia and then

into the afternoon, we see showers break out, and i think those showers, particularly across england and wales, will turn heavy with some hail and thunder. temperatures across the board below average for the time of year, and it's set to get colder. those northerly winds really start to arrive through monday and on into tuesday as well. now, we're looking at some rain across england and wales. further north, it's a day of sunshine and showers. there'll be some hail mixed in with some of these showers, a little bit of sleet across the far north of scotland and over the higher scottish mountains, yes, you could even see a little bit of snow, — but you have to go pretty high up for that, above 400 or 500 metres' elevation. temperatures dropping — highs of 7—11 degrees. feeling chilly, particularly for northern scotland. then monday night, we see a widespread frost develop and it's something that gardeners will certainly want to take note of. this is not a good news situation, really, for those tender plants — you might need to bring them back inside. tuesday, still cold, still a few wintry showers across northern scotland. showers with us for much of the week ahead with temperatures for the most part

staying well below average. bye for now.

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