“They’re taking cars from people forcefully, they’re taking their bodyguards, weapons, they do everything by force.” “They came to the prison in Kabul and freed all the prisoners,” he says. They are not changed people they are the same”.Īfter the Taliban swept into Kabul on 15 August, everything was chaos. “This,” he says, referring to the media spectacle of the Taliban holding press conferences to assure the world that it will govern fairly, that women will be treated well, “is just for a few days until they get to power. But I’m telling you the Taliban will not spare anyone.” “Look, let me tell you one thing: you are recording this. But the more he talks, the more it becomes clear why he feels the risk is worth taking.Īziz knows that these might be his last days. He is risking his life by making this call. “If the Taliban finds out someone is gay, believe me, they will just shoot him on the spot,” he says. Aziz describes the other, unofficial punishment.
