{"id":43724,"date":"2022-04-21T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/21\/we-had-4000-policewomen-in-afghanistan-let-them-get-back-to-work"},"modified":"2022-04-21T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T06:30:47","slug":"we-had-4000-policewomen-in-afghanistan-let-them-get-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43724","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We had 4,000 policewomen in Afghanistan. Let them get back to work\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulafroz Ebtekar, a former top CID officer in Kabul, tells how she escaped the Taliban and is now working in exile to restore justice for the women of her homeland<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/taliban-poised-to-take-control-of-kabul-as-us-evacuates-embassy\">Taliban entered Kabul<\/a> on the morning of 15 August last year, Gulafroz Ebtekar refused to leave her office in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the Ministry of Interiors. \u201cEverybody rushed home, but I had responsibilities. I couldn\u2019t just leave, even if the Taliban were coming,\u201d says Ebtekar of her role as the former deputy general director of the CID\u2019s family response unit.\u2013<\/p>\n<p>She chose to stay, knowing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/10\/afghan-female-police-officers-live-in-fear-of-taliban-reprisals\">the Taliban would seek revenge<\/a> for the many cases she had investigated against their members. With a career in the Afghan police forces spanning more than 12 years, she led the department that oversaw cases of gender-based violence, including many in Taliban-controlled areas. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/apr\/21\/we-had-4000-policewomen-in-afghanistan-let-them-get-back-to-work\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulafroz Ebtekar, a former top CID officer in Kabul, tells how she escaped the Taliban and is now working in exile to restore justice for the women of her homelandWhen the Taliban entered Kabul on the morning of 15 August last year, Gulafroz Ebtekar re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,636,61,44,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-police","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43725,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43724\/revisions\/43725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}