Forcefully Deported Afghan Women Return to a Life of Fear and Anxiety Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/forcefully-deported-afghan-women-return-to-a-life-of-fear-and-anxiety/ PARWAN, Afghanistan, Nov 13 2025 (IPS) - When Roya, a former police officer under Afghanistan’s Republic government, left the country with her family, she felt a great sense of relief, having escaped from the horrors of Taliban rule. She never imagined that less than three years later she would be forced back into the same conditions, only worse. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.