{"id":699,"date":"2014-11-10T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2022-10-17T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:20:03","slug":"afghan-women-imprisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/afghan-women-imprisoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Women, Imprisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohreh Soleimani<\/a> first visited Afghanistan in 2001, when she was among the first journalists to reach the city of Herat after the fall of the Taliban. Some of her co-workers wondered why she got so close to the refugees she photographed, many of whom were sick. But she wanted a more intimate view of a country that had been cut off from the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zohreh Soleimani<\/a>\u00a0first visited Afghanistan in 2001, when she was among the first journalists to reach the city of Herat after the fall of the Taliban. Some of her co-workers wondered why she got so close to the refugees she photographed, many of whom were sick. But she wanted a more intimate view of a country that had been cut off from the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was amazing to see how people, just a few days after the fall of the Taliban, they wanted to go back to the real life they had before, especially women,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

By then, Ms. Soleimani had been working as a photographer in her native Tehran for years, doing news and features for domestic and foreign news media, with a focus on women\u2019s issues. The memory of Afghanistan stayed with her, and she returned there several times. In 2011, she began to visit Badam Bagh prison near Kabul to pursue a story about women in prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody thought I could get inside the prison with a camera,\u201d she said. \u201cI had to run around for two weeks for permits. Everybody was surprised to see that an Iranian woman wanted to go to a prison. I think at first they didn\u2019t take me seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inside, she met Soheila, who became the subject of her documentary \u201cTo Kill a Sparrow<\/a>,\u201d produced with the Center for Investigative Reporting and\u00a0featured on The Times\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0website last month.<\/p>\n

Soheila, then 21, had fled a forced marriage and fallen in love with a cousin, Niaz Mohammad. Her family had the couple thrown in jail, accused of adultery, conceiving a child out of wedlock and bigamy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I talked to Soheila, I was very impressed by her strength,\u201d Ms. Soleimani said. \u201cFor me she was like a hero because she knew that if she ran away, her father and brother could arrange for her to be killed easily.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/09\/afghan-women-imprisoned\/?_r=0<\/p>\n

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