time a research team will study the possible risk site in order to minimize that. we have an opportunity to to get it right before you start environmental activists. all of the rules fail billions to be made out to pascal commentary. deep sea greed, dots, december 7th. on d. w. as gant a 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 in the new government's coalition agreement. but what remains of that promise 2 years on the who don't start september 2023. i'm on 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 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 did you mean by here about i am here, vice. yes as out, but 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 stay and our family in afghanistan, one is off, i'm going to get enough guns for 6 months earlier. his younger brother of human rights activist was brutally killed by the taliban. when the systems of 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 make up. so that video going to sort of the brutal killing of i'm on that these 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, to the human rights situation. in afghanistan, at the moment, his bleak found 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. it's new supported media, freedom in china, existing women's rights advocate. calling with the people who used to work the n g a lloyd to the those who worked in the humanitarian sanctum, must be off at the top educational industries issue. money, former police officers use 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 of granite con. we will contr shots who were striking in 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 and afghanistan from 2020 to 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 and bureaucratic as lama bod pockets down to mana of sally has been living in a secret safehouse run by the german initiative compet lift pucca for 2 years. her father was killed by the taliban for refusing to let his daughters enter into force to 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 need nothing. at 730,

we heard gunfire and the sound of most of bikes and the streets of we will feel at home and also selves what had happened just and everyone was good and such and say the time of them was here. but as, as clicking more momentum with us, i cannot find one of the shops went through a window autonomy, wanting crushed everything off so that i was frightened and i cry, it was in with a fatal facial. i couldn't eat anything that's evening. okay, now it was a summer night and i cried until daybreak and corner 0. so did my initial sister my hold? let me show me uh, hold on. chevy. thought of a savannah brown was swimming all over the country for the c o ticket. you seen the pictures on television there on the door and getting stand. i was good because the others told me that the television would arrest the all just tell them hey, you know, they came to last think a telephone with them, my mother and my sister,

and i got that one of my pictures together. and you and me get on that's going on, we remove them from the rules and took the mouse of the frames quite all the time. i run to them and plastic, go put them in a bag and hit them in the attic so that they wouldn't find my things if they search the house into the as the whole going to be doing cattle and even the i had house was my stuff in the st. can't the police pick? i'm the guy. i didn't take them to my uncle's family or another pushed bull. it would have been too risky. i think i was thought i came down and they didn't want to talk to. you don't read that to you as they said, we comp time and you know pictures. i wonder most of us when you have to do that. 20 mostly you'll be holding jerome now longest. i guess i 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 of delay drop. so that's all come home. this is 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 stuck in pockets. don't say that i'm sick of living and pack a stone. i have been here for 2 years without my family. i'm far away from my relatives. to mamma of sally has relatives in germany. a network of helpers got her a place at the university and apartment and enough money to live on the fun when after a year's wake, 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 go for the bell, they asked me where my office works, where 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 kind of money. and

that's why i didn't have them with me talk to them. because in the boss, i have my portfolio with me, i know i have copies of my pictures the and i showed them, well, i told that they were my pictures, but i couldn't save all of them. was my biggest on the list, the max of the show what that in my mind that gave me a picture of an lion. i'm told me to copy it. yeah. and i said yes. ok. calling on the symbol i gave 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 about it. but he was very unfriendly. and he gave me a piece of paper and the pen booth and left the picture lying behind the big loss politician. i had only drone a little bit 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 off to 10 minutes at the most of the law. a 2nd artistic aptitude test carried out by embassy staff. professors that tomato

of sally's perspective university find it hard to believe they had organized everything. so their scholarship holder could study in berlin. the young afghans artistic talent is obvious. the contest sign when they are the 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 things that knows best tough month to specialists with this. as of the german embassy and pockets, tom sees things differently. who are not the and they down 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 model of sally's fellow

students organize the campaign in solidarity with her. with no success. when the universities president intervene and asked to speak to someone at the embassy, he got no response. and 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 reason 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

20221 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 work 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 in g o passes the case to the german interior ministry selection. 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 20 23, 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 box humanitarian visas 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 and purchased on that 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 layer just in constant the initial gain. that's the only way to save people from otherwise in this plan is just a hypo tank, a toothless and didn't effect jonya t got dimensions. facebook disclose ali 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 telephone is too great. his visa for progress done is still valid. for now . he used to work for a big human rights organization in afghanistan. he also organized women's and minority rights protests after the taliban takeover and this made him and his courageous fellow campaigners most of them women in a target for the islam. s it

matters the tomorrow after our demonstration, the taliban arrived on november 3rd 2022. 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 get a kind of a, they don't have them call. they tortured me during this time of the offense cci. finally, some of the shots that me and my mind that she can just for those and honest with on 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 the and i'll think of that 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 of the state away from each other and auto at home or to my children. i don't find out i would wake up in the middle of the night. i'm just screaming wow. student was really sad. 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 my tears with us as my son would look at me,

he was so afraid. but to him as i, you know, so he wouldn't come anywhere near me allow me to say to my case, i have completely 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 and network and he doesn't have that. so he just has to stay put and hope for the best. not with us for them. um uh, unfortunately i am not in touch with any other country. then i came to apply for anything mandatory and visa any where they have a bus out of the front of age. but even with us printer page, i don't even know where i could apply for an admission program like that. it would be the best out of the sun on my tongue, but i'm off ali, alarmed,

or couldn't reply to germany's admission scheme. even though it was meant to help people like him. to get a recommendation from one of the secret n 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 surely that it might have hopes and expectations of the western nations, which i'll hold democratic values and human rights. ok, but out of that window, but somebody throws these volumes, democratic engagement when uh that it gets too much of that. cuz then yeah, it has their director in direct counterparts. we're also trying to implement these ideas, enough dentist and then i am was stuck in your and i do most of him so well,

you also hope to facilitate the introduction of human rights. jeff countless thomas headache as costly for sure that it'd be better for us to i know we expect them to defend the human rights activist. you know, that actually has actually people like all the new have not only lost their homes in their country, but she was health as most are being destroyed or her policy had to her that i thought you and are you ready for that? nothing. ok. people who don't have enough to sacrifice their lives. i know, and what a has this thought. i think it the west will help human rights activists like me and give those visas. i don't know if i'm open on line one or anatomy that every time ali alondo are 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. live station germany. the sisters soleah and maria move hummadi were lucky. marty

and had already fled afghanistan to eastern germany in 2019. and a half dentist in both had been studying economics and were organizing climbing courses for girls. inconceivable under the taliban smarty and was able to extricate her little sister from the chaos in afghanistan in 2021. with the help of the cobbled lift book, an initiative that was very hot and the very done jewels because every year uh, was a toddler bond. and they sure thing. and they hide the pupa, hit the pupils when i got into money time in the airport. but i couldn't go inside due today, 2 years horrible mario move hummadi has started training to be a physiotherapist. soleah is learning german and hopes to get an apprenticeship and

health care liter. 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 they're stuck at 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, the core support at all goodness. but he was in the music school. was the cooler

on that, but it's been closed. that's for bidding in afghanistan. now that's a simple way to go assessed for it is difficult feeling with and yet in tech meet in and we have to talk to them every day. so just 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 at this point. i know they're in afghanistan and then it's going to is a boy from the combo lift book. an initiative has been following their progress since they left afghanistan. these ones i stop the refuses to accept the reality that you comp just separate families and think that they'll be fine on the golf and come 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 mariama 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 should. and since germany follows the rules, must be on, 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 was 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, august, 4th, when the program and these go because it's the programs are 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 illegal that then from the to many outcomes are affected by push backs and when can are prevented from getting to europe. this overall evaluation. yeah, give invite that won't be the expert from people as a german and 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 are democracy and women's rights. there were many women in her ministry, but all that changed overnight. once each, when i was one week later, the same ministry looked like this. as on the taliban are sitting there. fits

indeed colleagues on. do you hope to return to afghanistan one day with the taliban? no longer in power. yeah, it's been, i know yes. so not to have a very positive person by nature, all buttoned into i believe in this day and of the one day we will return and support the rebuilding of afghanistan. fear of going to son to be that are both on, on science, it's in the civil engineer, i'm on now. 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 owes that can issue a recommendation for welcome good, good. now he's applying to the state of the ranges, 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 california is the so 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, and the german embassy. and so i'm about to, we've been waiting to get an initial needs appointment for about 4 months now. finance 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 the phone, 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 can't even see my as you'd be frightened to have an open g for the germany promised to offer protection and help to people like i am on. that'd be that 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 time on of 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 value driven and feminist foreign policy. many people in afghanistan believe this promise and have been let down the

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