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Afghan women: Secret diaries of changing lives
When the Taliban swept into Kabul on 15 August the only shots they fired were in celebration
For Afghan women, the salvos represented the loss of all their rights and freedoms.
- Sodaba Haidare
- BBC
Five of them have been sending the BBC daily diaries, which provide a portrait of their rapidly changing lives.
15 August – ‘Day of Judgement’
There’s a scene in The Handmaid’s Tale, the TV series based on Margaret Attwood’s dystopian novel, where the main character, book editor June Osborne, arrives at her office one morning only to learn that the country’s new leaders have banned women from the workplace.
Her boss gathers all the…