When the Taliban’s men came knocking at her house in January, Nooran* went and hid in her parent’s yard. “I did not want to be arrested along with my mother,” says the Afghan teen. Moments later, her mother Shahbaneh* was taken away.
On 8 January, Taliban officials detained Shahbaneh over a social media post ruing the fate of her family’s young women, who would no longer be able to attend school. Nooran shows The Independent the Facebook post her mother had made, commenting on the local school’s notice that it was shutting down due to a lack of teachers and resources.
