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This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross.

This month marks the one year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and the departure

of US troops. Over the course of the year, the Taliban have intensified their crackdown

on women's rights to the point that women have been erased from public life. When out

in the street, women are expected to be covered from head to toe with only an opening for

their eyes. With a few exceptions, they're no longer allowed to work. Girls aren't allowed

to go to school after sixth grade. Women and girls have been disappearing, imprisoned

for breaking the Taliban's morality code or forced into marrying one of the Taliban.

In the new documentary, Afghanistan Undercover, my guest, Ramida Navai, sometimes with the

help of a hidden camera, managers to talk to women in jail, women hiding in safe houses,

as well as women's rights lawyers and activists risking their lives to help other women

and to protest the Taliban. Navai also interviews a couple of Taliban officers asking them about

their treatment of women. The film will be shown on the PBS Frontline series next Tuesday,

August 9th. Navai is a British Iranian investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and author.

She won an Emmy for her PBS Frontline documentary, Syria Undercover. She risked her life to make

that one. She's been the reporter and documentaries about rape in India and UN peacekeepers accused

of rape. Her first book was titled, City of Lies, Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for

Truth in Tehran. Ramida Navai, welcome to Fresh Air and congratulations on the documentary.

It seems like the promises that the Taliban made a year ago about how they treat women

have been broken. What are the promises they made and broke?

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