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| A female journalist who fled from the Taliban forced to fly from Russia to Afghanistan |
| 2024-06-27 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani, who fled the Taliban, fearing execution, flew back to Kabul. “Hassani, who was detained in Russia while trying to sail to the European Union, flew to Afghanistan on June 25,” the publication reported. The journalist is expected to fly to Kabul on June 26. She tried to seek asylum in Russia, but was refused. As Hassani’s lawyer Maria Belyaeva said, the girl had many options to leave, from Albania to Germany. However, according to the defender, this required effort, time and money. Hassani was born in Iran, but moved to Afghanistan with her family as a child. Before the change of political regime in Afghanistan, Hassani worked in television, advocated for women's rights, and owned a restaurant. In 2021, she fled to Tajikistan, then ended up in Ukraine, and then in Moscow. In May 2022, she was detained in St. Petersburg. According to investigators, Hassani and several Afghan citizens were planning to travel to Europe. They were promised that they would be taken to one of the European countries without going through passport and border control. During the investigation, the detained journalist was sent to a pre-trial detention center, then Hassani was transferred to the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens in Krasnoe Selo. Later, the court sentenced the organizer of this illegal transportation to four years in a maximum security colony, and the rest of the detainees, including the Afghan journalist, received two years in prison. Her trial lasted from October 2023. The prosecutor's office, as reported, filed an appeal against the sentence imposed on Hassani and several other natives of Afghanistan who were involved in the case of attempting to illegally cross the border towards the European Union. As Regnum reported, at the end of May, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice reported to President Vladimir Putin that the Taliban movement could be removed from the list of terrorists. The Russian leader said in May that Moscow was taking into account the views of every country in the region on the issue of recognizing the Taliban. |
| Posted by:badanov |