coming up next close up, it looks as the human rights situation in afghanistan, 2 years after the totally bon. these powers there. again, i'll be back at the top of the hour with mobile use to see you then the vibrant and listening place of long in the mediterranean sea and mazda and jeff bar up to coming to us during motor in lodge styles and needed to amy and admitted to amy and jenny this week, on the dw

as ganeth stand 2021, the taliban surged back to power. after a lightning campaign, us and allied troops scrambled to leave kabul, which was mired in chaos and violence. many people were attempting to fleet but tens of thousands who put their hopes in germany and a peaceful future were left in the hands of the islamist human in women's rights activists. artists their lives, all in grave danger. the german government made sweeping promises. you have not been forgotten the pledge to give shelter in germany to anyone who needed it was even laid down and the new government's coalition agreement. but what remains of that promise 2 years on the

who does start september 2023, imo and that'd be that lives here in eastern germany with his young son and his partner. the civil engineer fled afghanistan in 2015. he learned the german at breathtaking speed since 2016, the 35 year old has worked for an architectural and engineering company a life in freedom in peace. but it's one that he cannot saver what each means is, but here i am here, vice vs as ultimate as you know here. and we're also in a bad way to switch time, because we are deep on thinking about our people in my state and our family in afghanistan. one is off, i'm going to get enough guns for 6 months earlier. his younger brother, a human rights activist, was brutally killed by the taliban. when the 1st of the for me, yes,

the rest of our family is still in danger. one for us to can and, and how you doing? but then when i'm hoping that i can find a way to save them so that they phone every day, i'm on, that'd be that. that is tortured by anxiety for his loved ones. i'm to let me check up. so the video going to sort of the brutal killing of i'm and that'd be, that does, brother is not an isolated case, torture, murder, and bloody acts of revenge. our daily occurrence is under the taliban regime. the, to the mentioned to, to human rights situation in afghanistan. at the moment is please find out it couldn't be any more catastrophic, really the goal in particular for women to man, the people who defend the rights of others. and that's new support media, freedom and john o, existing women's rights advocate. calling with the people who used to work the n g a lloyd to those who worked in the humanitarian sanctum, must be off at the top educational individually issued money form,

a police officer who was by should be those fees. and in that way of being prosecuted, embodying a pre type, i'm attending the i'm to the vet and support what risks do they face developing that killed? no one knows how many killings and acts of torture are being carried out. there is no one left in afghanistan who can count them. yet the german government had wanted to give special protection to people at acute risk. with its action plan for afghanistan presented in december 2021 fighter for him 2 days ahead of the new year . it is important to me is german, he's born minister to say, you are not forgotten. he's in ms. we are working extremely hard to bring you to safety that on we must do everything possible to make all travel routes out of afghanistan, more and bureaucratic cause i've got a con. we will contr shots who were style

and concrete on the plan envisaged accelerating departures from afghanistan, eliminating bureaucratic hurdles for afghans, particularly at risk. reducing red tape for routes out of afghanistan, facilitating family reunification, expanding humanitarian assistance. foreign ministry staff on site in afghanistan from 2022 contributing to teachers salaries of girls are permitted to learn and women to teach scholarships for female students. protecting women from gender based violence protection and support for human rights. defenders and media professionals. german help for those left behind was intended to be easy to access swift and on bureaucratic as lama bod pocket's done. the amount of sally has been living in a secret safehouse run by the german initiative called the lift book. for 2 years.

her father was killed by the taliban for refusing to let his daughters enter into forced marriages as an artist and supporter of women's rights for life was in danger. toner was a whole bunch of them sees the country that was fighting for over a month and around and will know evening. at 730 we heard gunfire and the sound of most of bikes and the streets of we little at home and also selves. what's that happened in charleston and everyone is as good and such and say, the time of them was here, it is. but as, as clicking more momentum with us, i cannot find. one of the shots went through a window of autonomy, one crushed everything. after that, i was frightened and i cry, it was in with a fatal fe showed i couldn't eat anything that's evening. oh, cafe down. it was a summer night and i cried until daybreak and corner 0. so does my little sister my

hold like motion? hold on a chevy. the savannah brown was swimming all over the country for the c o. tickets . you've seen the pictures on television there in georgia getting stand. i was good because the others told me that the television would arrest the all. just listen to this, tell them, hey, you know, they came to ask a telephone with my mother, my sister, and i gathered all of my pictures together. and you and me get on that's going on, we remove them from the rules rules and took the mouse of the frames all the time. i wrapped them in plastic and put them in a bag and hit them in the attic. and so that they wouldn't find my fingers if they search the house seem to be as the whole boy and i'll be doing cattle and went to bed. i had half of my stuff in the sake of the stick. i'm the guy. i didn't take them to my uncle's family or another push to boil. it would have been too risky. that was done. i came down and they didn't want to talk to you the 19 years and

they said, we comp time to go pictures. i wonder most of us when you have to do that 20 mama for you will be the holding jerome now little still, i guess i don't know. it was done. my big brother told me to find my aunt. she wouldn't be so that they couldn't find them, but i mean, but i said that i wouldn't find my pictures. nothing a 100 years mixed delay dropped, sets all the young artist got a scholarship and a place to study at the berlin university of the arts. but rather than studying, she's now start getting pockets done so many that i'm sake of living and pockets. tom has been here for 2 years without my family and far away from my relatives to mamma of sally has relatives in germany. a network of helpers got her a place at the university, an apartment and enough money to live on. but when after

a year's wait, she got an appointment at the german embassy and pockets done. she didn't get the visa, she was expecting. but a surprising task instead, the hall by the level, for example, they asked me where my aunt works, why makoto hold. as i promised, i told them i was only able to take a few pictures with me when i left just kind of started to check that amount even. and that's why i didn't have them with me talk to them. because in the boss, i have my portfolio with me and i have copies of my pictures the and i showed them, well, i told them that they were my pictures, but i couldn't save all of them. was my body just on google, the blue on black solution? what that income my mom that gave me a picture of an lion. i'm told me to copy it and yeah, and i said yes. okay. courtney on the system will not give me. she gave me a ball point pen, and i asked if she had a pencils and long as i drove a pencil around, he said, we don't have any pencils here. i thought he was very unfriendly. and he gave me

a piece of paper and the pen booth and left the picture lying behind a big loss politician. i had certainly drawn the little bits when he said, that's enough. your time is up to come. i said, wait, i'm not finished yet. but he replied, no, you don't have any more time. that was after 10 minutes. at the most of the a 2nd artistic aptitude test carried out by embassy staff. professors that to model of sally's perspective university, find it hard to believe as they had organized everything. so their scholarship holder could study in berlin. the young afghans artistic talent is obvious. the contest sign when do i know how can that be when we are all agreed that she should study here, that she has an enrichment for the university of the class. when we want the class to be diverse, we want people like her to study here, but she's still not here. and the embassy thinks it knows best tough month. the

special twist of the german embassy and talk as tom sees things differently, who not the and stays out the seriousness of her intent to study least thing. her performance gave considerable close for doubt whether she would be able to successfully complete his studies and in the prescribed time and then side opposite view and couldn't to mazda of sally's fellow students organize the campaign in solidarity with her. with no success. when the university's president intervene and asked to speak to someone at the embassy, he got no response. this time, even though that's 4 times i can only base my judgment of what type of tools, and it's not acceptable when guzman done. if there are no other reasons standing in the way, reasons i don't know about that, so it's been that i'm not an expert when it comes to visas. and then of course, we need to give this person who has passed the aptitude test. the items for the

opportunity to study for the young to model of sally is not the only one who is dependent on the embassies goodwill. some 14000 others like her are waiting for an appointment in pockets done. former employees of german organizations in afghanistan and other vulnerable people with conditional approval to come to germany under previous programs. it was all meant to be swifter and easier. in 2020 to one year after presenting the action plan for afghanistan, the german government announced a federal program for admission of afghan nationals to germany. it was intended to replace previous admission programs. berlin promise that people in grave danger would finally be given on bureaucratic health. in reality, what was described as on bureaucratic worked like this? anyone being persecuted by the taliban has to approach one of the engine goes working together with the german government. the names of those organizations are not publicly available. if an application is accepted,

the n g o passes the case to the german interior ministry selection poor. here cases are earmarked for admission. they get a case number rejections are not sent out. the lucky ones have to apply for a passport at the taliban passport agency. extremely risky for human rights activists and then get a visa for pockets done where the german embassy is based. that often takes a long time and cost several $100.00 in pockets done. they need a visa appointment at the embassy. people often wait for months, and while they wait, their visas for pockets done often expire. people have to go into hiding to avoid deportation. if they get an appointment in time, they have to pass that security interview as well as the admission interview. then the embassy decides whether to approve admission and provide a visa. if they get the final approval, they're allowed to go to germany. if they're rejected,

their case number is deactivated. the program was meant to bring 1000 people and acute danger to safety each month from october 2022 onwards. in spring 2023, the program was suspended for 3 months to introduce new security checks. upon request, the german interior ministry revealed these figures as of november 24th 2023. 30 people have been permitted to enter germany. so one year on some point, 25 percent of the possible 12000 people with admission approval have come to germany under the federal admission program. and yet the german government had such lofty goals. the coalition agreement laid down a humanitarian admission program for afghans will documented terry and visa as for those in danger, a digital and swift approval process. but the federal admission program won't be reviewed until 2024. at the earliest. there will be no time for any major

changes before the next general election, the google carts and who does need to hit the arrow. chrysler capital should not be at this time via this. this is kind of pragmatic. realistic health has to be available pockets time you have to realize that these people on site and packaged on either on impact just on their or so tyler bond who are looking for dissidence, like them for most the lloyd and you have to make it possible for people to leave pockets down swiftly talk is time and don't force them to go down this bureaucratic roots in order to leave. it isn't constant, but this is the mission. so again, that's the only way to save people from otherwise in this plan is just a hypo tank, a toothless and ineffectual yet to go with dimensions facebook disclose holly alum dar, which is not his actual name is one of those people who aren't being helped by germany, he's stuck in pockets done and he can't risk being identified. the danger from the tyler bond is too great. his visa for pockets done is still valid. for now.

he used to work for a big human rights organization in afghanistan. you know, he also organized women's and minority rights protests after the taliban takeover and not that's all this made him and his courageous fellow campaigners most of them women and then a target for the islam is of the matter the tomorrow. after our demonstration, the taliban arrived on november 3rd 2022 as that is all they did change me in the number of my colleagues sort of saying own, but i spent 2 months in prison. not at least not. i don't have them call. they tortured me during this time. the sense finally some of the shots that me my my neck. she can just for the lunch for them by let's go for them. we consolidate a move, send us a salt i was day, but i called the district elder to have my party picked. the cut,

the matter means the mazda asked me for them. i don't think it was on commodity. as mine came together with my family matters all the money, they realized i was still alive and took me to the hospital. he was tortured for 2 months and lost teeth from the beatings and the shot gun alone. he now has great difficulty eating. they tore it out, finger nails beat him with types, gave him electric shocks. after getting out of the hospital, he and his family managed to flee illegally at 1st to pockets done. the torture has taken a great toll. he may never be able to walk again unaided. laptop. i'm one of those. i'm on a, a to after getting out of jail for a week. so we come screaming in the night. turn the machine i thought of my son and

my wife were scared to the state away from each other and auto had homer to my children. i don't find out i would wake up in the middle of the night. i'm just screaming the student was going to say that it was the worst thing when they had as in don't kind of the response that my family was frightened don't know was worse than being in prison. my phone minimize a lot. there's with us. the sun wouldn't look at me how much it was so afraid by chance of either so he wouldn't come anywhere near me. allow me to say to my documents, i have been politically lost my mind. i saw her this little longer. so it's only a long dark case for germany's federal admission program in theory. guess what? who should he turn to? there isn't any kind of central coordination point that people like him can get in touch with. you need contacts a network, and he doesn't have that. so he just has to stay put and hope for the best. no,

that's what i'm all the. fortunately i am not in touch with any other country. then i came to my life or humanitarian visa any where they have a bust out of the son of my age credit. because from my age i don't even know where i could apply for an admission program. lights the bus, out of the sun. i'm at 10, but i'm off all the alarm door couldn't apply to germany's admission scheme, even though it was meant to help people like him to get a recommendation from one of the secret in g o's, he would still need to be in afghanistan. the program is of no use to people whose lives were in danger and had to get out fast. so he's not eligible for legal evacuation to germany. he appears to have been forgotten. tell them all,

ask shortly that i have hopes and expectations of the western nations which helpful democratic values and human rights hopefully was out of the window. but somebody throws the volume, democratic engagement when uh that it gets so much evidence on that. cuz then yeah, it has their director in direct to parts. we're also trying to implement these ideas and the dentist and then i am was stuck in all right, and most of him so well, he is also who to facilitate the introduction of human rights. jeff catalyst, i'm a subject as costly. uh, sure. that'd be what the phone is. so i know we expect them to defend the human rights activist, you know, but i, we has actually people like all the new have not only lost their homes in their country, but who is health as most, are being destroyed or have policy had to her that have to you and are you ready for nothing. ok, people who don't have enough tickets for the you only live sacrifice their lives that i know and what uh, are they still that?

okay. the west will help human rights activists like me and give those visas. i don't know if i'm open on land one on the ali alondo or is not safe and pockets done. it's government wants to get rid of atkins, whatever it takes, he stranded without any prospect or money without in any way out. lives this germany. the sisters soleah and maria move hummadi were lucky. marty, and had already fled afghanistan to eastern germany in 2019. and afghanistan, both had been studying economics and were organizing climbing courses for girls. inconceivable under the taliban. smarty, i'm was able to extricate her little sister from the chaos in afghanistan in 2021. with the help of the cobbled lift book initiative, that was very hot and the very dangerous because every year was a paula bond. and they sure thing,

and they hide the pupa hit the pupils. when the i got to i went to money time in the airport, but i couldn't go inside. do today 2 years horrible. marty and move hummadi has started training to be a physiotherapist. soleah is learning german and hopes to get an apprenticeship and health care. in later she'd like to study medicine and become a doctor. lexi, she was not the but the 2 sisters are weighed down with worries about their family . back in afghanistan, their father, mother and siblings, and they are in germany and freedom, working, getting training, but they had to leave their loved ones behind. even though the action plan for afghanistan made generous provision for family reunification, so far the 2 young women have been unable to bring their family to germany. as

a sphere, there's not totally dish fund if it's difficult, of course, because we don't know what is happening on to yet these in a month to how there's so good home. oh, nice way out of my little sister hasn't been able to go to school for 2 years now. surely again, on to the same with my big brother for support. uh oh goodness. but he was in the music school. was a cooler on that, but it's been closed. that's for bidding in afghanistan. now that's a fair 4 to wait to get assessed for it is difficult feeling with and yet in tech meet in, and we have to talk to them every day to find out what is happening. see if this is wrong with it there. well, yeah, this is really difficult because we don't really know what will happen to my family enough if they're in afghanistan. and then it's going to is a boy from the combo lift book. a initiative has been following their progress since they left afghanistan. these ones i stopped the site and refuses to accept

the reality that you comp just separate families and think that they'll be fine. i'm galvan comes to suspension and often just because someone is 18, it doesn't mean that they don't need the parents anymore. this is the other 4 really hard to take out of the we've managed to get the families of some of the very young women out. and i know that they are doing much, much better than mari, i'm and soleah for example. so i get a smashing volume on sunday. after the telephone take over a couple of the book up again helping people who were in a cute danger to flee from afghanistan. about the people fleeing and their helpers are putting their lives on the line. thus, via we are the only ones helping women traveling alone to escape the german government in germany's international co operation agency. the g, i said, don't take any women traveling alone out of the country because the time about the permits, it says. and since germany follows the rules, must be, oh,

we are the only ones doing this on the donation basis. hosting i comp tell you exactly how we do it for safety reasons, but its guessing more and more difficult company to it. we asked the foreign ministry for comment in a written statement. they told us the german government did support women traveling alone. but that a male guardian, what's required yet, and their coalition agreement of 2021. germany's government said it would pursue a feminist and value driven foreign policy. there are hardly any legal escape routes out of afghanistan's august. boy, when he broke it on my knees, come because it's the programs they're not implemented on the napkins have no option, but to use these legal bruises. how about like a daily color? but unfortunately, as it's a legal that infinity to many outcomes are affected by push backs and when that are prevented from getting to europe. this overall evaluation. yeah,

kemp invite that won't be the expert from people as a german n g o supporting refugees had to flee afghanistan herself before that she was a deputy minister in the state ministry for peace, where she also works to both the democracy and women's rights. there were many women in her ministry, but all that changed overnight. once each or 9 boxes, one week later, this same ministry looked like this. as on the taliban are sitting there. fits in detail, yvonne do you hope to return to afghanistan one day with the taliban? no longer in power. yeah. it's been, i know yes for not to have a very positive person by nature, all buttoned into i believe in this day and, and that one day we will return and support the rebuilding of afghanistan. feel i've got a son to be that are both on, on science, it's in this new civil engineer. i'm on that. these are the is also trying not to give up hope after his brother is killing. he unsuccessfully tried to get his family out through the federal admission program,

but he was unable to contact one of the secret n g o is that can issue a recommendation for welcome good, good. now he's applying to the state of the range us admission program. it permits family reunification for people who have the necessary funds, unlike many others who have flood imo and not be that can afford to support his relative to have a form in it. the when i am standing sure to, to you from my older brother via the stroke heart of the human. but i sent all the necessary documents into my time and immigration authority. and as well, i'm the german embassy and it's a lot of that. and we've been waiting to get an initial needs appointment for about 4 months now. finding that mean. so of course, behind the diesel, he hasn't had a reply yet. so there is no way out of afghanistan for his family right now. stan lindsey this for lindsay. if i'm can you imagine if many younger brother had been murdered, a boy and the rest of your family were in danger. the 1st thing upon this,

and we didn't see much as you'd be frightened to have an audience equal to germany, promised to offer protection and help to people like i am on nobody's out does brother. but very little has happened in practical terms. why is that the interior and foreign ministry is declined to go on camera, and the people in afghanistan are not just suffering at the hands of the telephone . in october 2023, the country was struck by powerful earthquakes. hundreds died and thousands lost their homes, including come on up sally's family. the harsh winter months lie ahead and $20000000.00 afghans are already going hungry. the world has lost sight of this humanitarian catastrophe. berlin, fledge to pursue a value driven and feminist foreign policy. many people in afghanistan believed this promise and have been let down

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