i travelled to herat central prison, the last place alia was seen, and where she has worked for the pastears to see if they were willing to offer any information. the guards made it very clear that i was not going to be allowed into the female section, but i managed to ask some questions of the prison director. the international community is really worried about a woman who used to run that prison and was told by the taliban to come back to work. and she happily went back to work. but for the past eight months, she's been missing. what do you know about that case? when an employee goes missing, do think it's the responsibility of the authorities to track down? some are pointing the finger of blame at the taliban for her disappearance. the new prison warden said the case had nothing to do with them because alia went missing after leaving the prison grounds. they said it would make sense by leaving the country without saying goodbye to her family. somebody willapproach without saying goodbye to her family. somebody will approach me who wanted to remain anonymous saying that alia have been

she was being held in herat's central prison. daughter that was smuggled out of prison. her sister read it out to us. >> dima: >> navai: maryam said that some friends had been arrested for riding in a taxi without a male relative. she and one of the friend's fathers went to find them, then she, too, was arrested for traveling without a male relative. >> dima: ♪ ♪ (car horns honking) >> navai: maryam's family said they tried to see her in the prison, but were turned away and told there was no record of her there. without mentioning her name, we approached the prison ourselves to see if we could get inside and find out what was going on. ♪ ♪ a few days later, the taliban sent their answer. we've been told we can film in the men's section. and when we're there, we're going to see if we can get permission to film in the women's section. ♪ ♪ the new taliban prison chief, mullah mohammad nabi khalil, was waiting. he wanted to show us he was treating his prisoners well. >> (speaking pashto): >> navai: our tour of the men's wing began. (