Shaharzad Akbar

Still to come... Her emotion just burns through this and it is her last letter and we wouldn't have it if it hadn't been smuggled out.

We heard 22 testimonies in October and we have received evidence.

Everything points to the worsening human rights situation, particularly women's rights situation in Afghanistan.

Women are even banned from seeking a medical education that would allow them to treat other women in a situation where they are not, men are not allowed to treat women.

So women can die from preventable deaths.

Girls beyond 11 can't go to school.

They are not allowed formally to go to school.

So their aspirations, their dreams for the past years have died.

Women who are on the verge of graduating from university have been banned from going to university.

All aspects of women's rights and freedoms are restricted and women are only allowed essentially to be at home and care for the male members and female members of the family.

Beyond the four walls of the house, they have no right to a public and social existence.

Extremely, because as the situation gets worse, Afghanistan is fading from the public memory outside Afghanistan and Taliban are being normalized.

I was talking to young women and girls in Afghanistan who said, not only we are being forgotten and abandoned, but also the criminals who are perpetuating all this atrocities against us, all this oppression against us, they're being normalized, they're being welcomed.

Taliban were in India recently, you know, being received very warmly there.

Germany has allowed Taliban to come and then the consulates in Germany because they want to ensure they can deport Afghans back to Afghanistan.

So not only that Afghan women are forgotten, their plight is forgotten, things are getting worse, but also Taliban are being treated like a normal government.

And this is a really chilling message to women of Afghanistan.

This is exactly why we organized the People's Tribunal, because we want people across the world, women's groups, youth groups, social justice movements in the West to stand up in solidarity with women of Afghanistan, to push their governments not to normalize and not recognize the Taliban unless they change their repressive policies.

And also to pressure their governments to continue humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, to continue support Afghanistan.

and asylum and protection for women human rights defenders, women and men whose lives are at risk because of the Taliban, and to continue to push for justice and accountability for Afghanistan.