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This Christmas, remember those we left behind in Afghanistan

This Christmas, remember those we left behind in Afghanistan

Reposting a piece from three years ago about what happened in Afghanistan after the Taliban retook power. Then they came for the journalists, including me, so no one knows what's really going on now

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Dec 17, 2021
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December 17, 2021 (Tortoise)—Subhan is a 23-year-old gay man desperate to leave Afghanistan before the Taliban find him and punish him for his homosexuality. His father and brothers beat him often, h…

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