Angelina Jolie took to social media to share a personal, moving letter from a young Afghan woman detailing her experience in the Taliban-seized country.
“A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter,” Jolie began the caption of her post. “I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power.”
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward,” the unidentified woman wrote to Jolie. “The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
“Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day,” the Maleficent actress wrote in the call-to-action post. “Please help ensure they’re not forgotten”
Jolie also shared the names of women’s rights activists who are “missing” in Afghanistan: Alia Azizi, Parwana Ibrahimkhel, Mursal Ayar, and Zahra Mohammadi, plus Tamana Zaryab Paryani and her three sisters.
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