Escape from the Taliban

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sana Safi follows the stories of two Afghan women judges who have had to go into hiding after the Taliban takeover. Through encrypted networks and messages, Sana gets unprecedented access to the secretive operatives trying to get the women and their families out of the country. It is a race against time as the Taliban go door to door looking for the women.

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0:00.0	What goes into making the business daily podcasts from the BBC World Service?
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0:08.0	Then we add a healthy measure of technology.
0:10.0	Mmm. Along with a pinch of exciting innovation.
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0:44.0	Sit rap 09945 hours local for Mission Romeo Juliet 17.
0:56.0	I think that if they find me, they will definitely kill all of us.
1:08.0	The ground team departed their base two hours ago and should be arriving for the pick up in the next 30 minutes.
1:22.0	What did you have just heard or recordings of a top secret military style operation?
1:28.0	The mission objective? To evacuate two women from Afghanistan
1:32.0	who say their lives are in mortal danger since the Taliban take over nine months ago.
1:37.0	Pray for me and I hope I make it there safely.
1:41.0	We just learned our visa agent was arrested by the Taliban today. It may affect the judges' visas.
1:47.0	We have multiple families at this effects and we're going to need to get all of them over the border as soon as possible.
1:53.0	The women are two of approximately 250 female judges who used to preside over the courts in Afghanistan.
2:01.0	But who say they're now on the Taliban's hit list?
2:05.0	I knew they were looking for the judges who had imprisoned them. They wanted to find and kill these judges.
2:11.0	Through audio diaries, texts, and calls over encrypted phone networks, we followed their lives in hiding for close to two and a half months.
2:20.0	Time is 10.32 hours local. The package is moving towards checkpoint 1.
2:27.0	My name is Sana Safi. I'm a broadcast journalist with BBC World Service, based in London.
2:33.0	But Afghanistan is home. I'm going to tell you the story of these two women.
2:39.0	And the International Alliance, which has joined forces to try to help them escape to a new life.
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