Maryam feared being killed if she was forced to return to Afghanistan.
A woman who was at risk of being sent back to Afghanistan and feared for her life has spoken of her happiness and excitement at hearing she will be allowed to stay in the UK.
But she still fears for her family, who she said are facing persecution under the Taliban in Afghanistan, and said she now wants to do more to save them. And she hopes she can now expand a community group which she runs called Maryam Empowering Futures, which she says is for Afghan women and focuses on education, health and skills. She hopes to turn the group into an official charity soon.
"That said, I still have serious concerns about a Home Office decision-making process that ever thought it appropriate to send a woman educator and activist back to Taliban-run Afghanistan.
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