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Afghanistan’s Ethnic Kyrgyz Want To Escape The Taliban, But It’s No Easy Task

25th January, 2023 · admin

By Baktygul Chynybaeva Farangis Najibullah January 24, 2023 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Dozens of ethnic Kyrgyz from Afghanistan’s remote Wakhan Corridor are calling on the government in Bishkek to repatriate them to their ancestral homeland so their children can get the education that the Taliban has denied them. In video statements sent to RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service,

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, Turks in Afghanistan |
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Tens of Thousands of Afghans Work Their Way Through US Immigration System

25th December, 2022 · admin

Aline Barros VOA News December 25, 2022 More than a year after the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghan families totaling more than 88,500 individuals have resettled in the United States through different immigration paths. Some have access to permanent residence while the rest have permission for short-term stays without the

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Asylum, Escape from the Taliban |
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Republican Senators Remove the Extension of SIV Program for War Interpreters

9th December, 2022 · admin

Khaama: Following the removal of the Special Immigration Visa extension from the Senate version of the defense spending bill, the Democrats, veterans, and advocacy groups criticized the republican lawmakers for the decision. “The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) fails our Afghan allied, today. The Senate removed a provision to extend the Afghan SIV program as

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, US betrayal of Afghans |
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‘Kite Runner’ Actor a Two-time Refugee

23rd November, 2022 · admin

 The Afghan actor Ali Danish Bakhtyari, who played the role of an orphan in the 2007 film “The Kite Runner,” has fled the Taliban rule in his home country twice: first in the late 1990s, and then in 2021, when the United States withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. Keith Kocinski has the story from

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Posted in Entertainment News, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Turkey pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at Iran border: HRW

18th November, 2022 · admin

Ariana: Turkey is routinely pushing tens of thousands of Afghans back at its land border with Iran or deporting them directly to Afghanistan with little or no examination of their claims for international protection, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’”

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Posted in Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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After Fleeing Taliban, Afghan Journalists Find Visa, Money Woes

5th November, 2022 · admin

VOA News November 4, 2022 WASHINGTON — Afghan journalists who fled across the border to Pakistan to escape Taliban rule say they still face an uncertain future. Living in Pakistan often on temporary or family visas, many are unable to find work and are concerned about their legal status when their permits expire. “We don’t know

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Posted in Economic News, Media, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Escape from the Taliban |
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Germany’s New Program to Take in At-Risk Afghans Challenging

22nd October, 2022 · admin

VOA News October 22, 2022 Zheela Noori Roshan Noorzai WASHINGTON — Germany’s announcement that it will take in 1,000 at-risk Afghans with their families from Afghanistan will be challenging, an Afghan lawyer says, because it is becoming increasingly difficult for Afghans to leave Afghanistan. In a joint statement, the German Foreign and Interior ministries announced

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Posted in Germany-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Germany New Admission Programme to Admit 1,000 Afghan Refugees Per Month

18th October, 2022 · admin

Khaama: The new programme will admit 1,000 Afghans per month and their family members, targeting particularly exposed Afghans who are active in women’s and human rights advocacy or those at risk for working in the fields of justice, politics, media, education, culture, sport or science. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Germany-Afghanistan Relations, Refugees and Migrants | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Blacklisted’ Afghan interpreters were disqualified from U.S. visas. Now they’re in hiding

2nd October, 2022 · admin

LA Times: The Times interviewed two dozen people about the issue, including interpreters, U.S. supervisors, advocates and lawyers, and reviewed hundreds of pages of internal State Department communications, government reports and visa applications. The interpreters who spoke to The Times said their visa petitions were denied despite receiving positive reviews from their military supervisors. In

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban |
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Former TOLOnews Journalist ‘Every Day We Faced a New Law’

30th September, 2022 · admin

Muska Safi VOA News September 30, 2022 ISLAMABAD — It’s a photo that caught the world’s attention: A news anchor at one of Afghanistan’s most prominent news outlets, pictured with her head in her hands after the Taliban ordered women to cover up. The woman pictured, TOLOnews anchor Khatera Ahmadi, says that despite increasing restrictions on

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Interviews, Media, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Escape from the Taliban, Life under Taliban rule |
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