Aizen – Epilogue
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Since our series about 'Aizen' ended, many of you have been in touch asking for an update on his story. When we left you at the end of the last episode, he had arrived in Europe, three years after leaving his home in Kabul and travelling through a labyrinth of smuggler networks. He claimed asylum in the UK, but his case was in limbo... Now we have an update for you.
This episode was produced by Al Shaibani and edited by Alex Atack and Dana Ballout. Fact checking was by Deena Sabry, and sound design was by Paul Alouf. Artwork by Ahmad Salhab. Batoul Khalifeh is our operations manager. Our team also includes Zeina Dowidar, Nadeen Shaker and Finbar Anderson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and you're listening to |
| 0:03.1 | all that is predictable, they've seen it happen. |
| 0:05.0 | And one story that always kind of captures my imagination. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm in the street's lost culture. |
| 0:12.7 | And you're listening to Kearning cultures. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, it's me. We are recording what we started a few months ago about the journey from Afghanistan to the UK. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Dana Balutz and this is Kernan Cultures. |
| 0:43.9 | A few months ago, we aired a four-part series about Aizen, an Afghan teenager who traveled on his own from Kabul and through a labyrinth of smuggler networks ended up all the way in Europe. |
| 0:57.0 | Eisen left Afghanistan in 2019. His long journey took him through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria. |
| 1:03.0 | We cross, if you go inside a house, and there was a other smuggler, which was so skinny. |
| 1:10.0 | Harsh winters and freezing mountains. |
| 1:12.8 | He was dying. |
| 1:15.7 | Next, through Serbia. |
| 1:17.4 | In there were like old ladies. |
| 1:19.2 | They always come and say, they talk to me in Russian. |
| 1:22.3 | Then three months in detention in Czechia. |
| 1:24.7 | We spend the night somewhere. |
| 1:26.4 | Then on to France. |
| 1:27.5 | I can't actually remember. |
| 1:29.4 | Eventually, he hid inside a range rover being transported on the back of a lorry. |
| 1:33.9 | So they car travel a lot. |
| 1:35.8 | And cross the channel from France into the UK in April of 2021. |
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