'Now those gloves are off': Afghan women brace for uptick in domestic violence under Taliban
CBC
On the day Afghanistan fell, Diba was helping patients when she received an urgent call from her mother, informing her the Taliban were in Kabul.
The 27-year-old medical student walked out onto the street to see women, running and screaming — "as if there was an explosion."
She boarded a crowded bus, where the fare had increased to 100 Afghani — a tenfold increase over the previous day. Diba thought she was heading home to safety, but instead said she soon found herself confined to a "prison" under her husband's control.
"My heart is broken, my body is in pain. I am a servant in my own home," said Diba, adding she now fears her husband more than the Taliban. CBC News is not using her real name out of concern for her safety.
In the more than 50 days since the Taliban swept across Afghanistan, Diba has ventured outside of her home only once to visit her mother — and only after her husband gave her permission.
From her mother's home, she spoke in Farsi to CBC News through a translator over Zoom.
Diba has been married for 2½ years, and she and her husband have a one-year-old daughter.
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