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Shaban Darwan was a television presenter in Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power following the exit of coalition forces. Standing up for her right to continue to work in TV, Shabnam made a video that went viral and forced her to flee her home country.Now in London, Shabnam's defiance in continuing to fight against the Taliban's rule has meant that the threats have been aimed at her mother and father.

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00:00The journalism is not a crime, being an anchor is not a crime, why they treat me, why they
00:09try to kill my father?
00:27My male colleagues go to office, they just show their card, I was working here, I'm member
00:34of this office, the TV, they said okay you can go.
00:39So I go there and when I arrived I just covered my face with the mask and I tried to enter
00:46the gate, one of them just called me from back, hey ladies, where are you going, I said
00:55I'm member of this TV, this is my ID card, as my colleagues show their, male colleagues
01:01show their ID card, they can enter to the office, you said everything is okay and nothing
01:08is changed, they said no, that was just an announcement, you are a female, you have to
01:15go back, now this is Islamic Emirate, you have to stay at home and I said no, they said
01:25what they announced, I believe that, they said to the world and the world just accept
01:30that and they have to do that what they said, they said no.
01:33One of them said if you don't leave this place, one of them came, one gunman will come and
01:40kill you.
01:55When they send the photo of my, our house, which we lives there before and my parents
02:04was live there, that was just shocked me and my teams, my very nice and kind and lovely
02:17team, they just support me and they arrange the passport, the visa, the everything and
02:26they just moved them from Afghanistan to another country.
02:30So fortunately now they are not in Afghanistan, but unfortunately they are still not safe
02:39because even in the third country, the Taliban can have access to them.
02:47Too many times I try to just leave the media, just for saving my family's life, but my father
02:57says Shabnam, if you leave your job, if you just shut your mouth, we are not friend anymore.
03:10If you are my friend, if you are my daughter, if you are member of my family, promise with
03:14me you have to carry on.
03:22I really miss them, I really miss them.
03:27I really want to hug my mom, hug my father once again.
03:34The journalism is not a crime, being an anchor is not a crime.
03:41Why they treat me, why they try to kill my father?
03:44I really want to hug my mom once again.
03:48My last words for my mom was, mom, I wish to see you once again and I wish to kiss you
03:58on your forehead once again.
04:01If I'm alive, I really want to be with you once again.
04:08I'm not very old, like I'm 26, now I'm 26, when I came here I was 24.
04:17I was not the person who takes care of all this stuff, looking after two families, looking
04:28after ourselves, myself, my family, my siblings.
04:31It's too much for me, it's too much for me.
04:34But my family and my friends support, they give me positive energy and that's why I'm
04:42alive yet and I'm doing my job, everything.
04:47But just I wish, I wish, I just want from my God to help me to just be able to hug my
05:00mom, hug my parents and no danger from me.

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