USAID cutting could be a “death penalty” for Afghan women who study abroad star-news.press/wp

A group of more than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban regime to study in Oman, says they are in danger of the immediate deportation of Afghanistan after their scholarship financed in foreign aid.

Women Students received Email on 28. In the February, informing them that the program of the Scholarship managed by the US International Development Agency on Oman, according to thousands of other NBC-news initiatives.

The State Department did not immediately answer the comment request. The storage of Afghan student was First reported the BBC.

The letter to assistance in Afghan female is an attractive emergency room to enable them to continue their studies abroad and avoid returning to the country in which to say, face certain persecutions and dangerous risks.

“The situation is catastrophic,” the letter is written. “Send to Afghanistan would mean the permanent loss of our education and exposure to difficult risks, including oppression, uncertainty and future without opportunity. This is a life or death situation for many of us.”

In Oman in Oman, Afghan students held undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Educlin Women’s Injurization, one of the many programs eliminated in Trump Administration efforts to scaling the USAID drastically.

State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Monday that 83% of USAID program was canceled after six-week audit and that the remaining programs would be connected to the State Department.

“Please don’t let our dreams be broken and Taliban decide our destiny,” the student’s letter is. “We were very fought to get out of your hands, we won’t live anymore if we have to go back to Afghanistan.”

The program for women’s scholars was introduced in 2019. With 50 million dollars from USAID, Deputy Legislative Director with Honor, a non-profit group working with Veterans in Congress from both sides on bipartisan initiatives. Interest in charge covered the costs of the program, which managed USAID, without the need for an additional annual funding of the US government, said.

Non-profit groups are in debates with Omanova Government to try to resolve the situation, he said.

“What we try to avoid is their return to Afghanistan, who would functionally represent the death penalty for these women who have helped the United States in search of higher education,” said Le said.

While the letter from Afghan student said 83 women were affected, Le said that he now appears more than 120 Afghanistan had a reduction in their scholarship.

Since the Taliban returned to the strength of 2021. After withdrawing the forces of Power from Afghanistan, they remosyn the draconic restrictions on women, including a ban on high school and limiting their freedom of speech and movement, according to human rights groups.

The tail. Seth Moulton, D-mass., He said that the elimination of the scholarship program is “shameful” and called on Trump administration to reverse the course.

“Trump Administration thinks that it is politically favorable for USAID, but Americans need to understand that they are behind canceled contracts and mass releases to innocent lives,” he said in the e-mail.

“In this case, these bright young women with the world could receive what might be able to express a death penalty in a few days – simply because they rely on a scholarship that is financed in the United States to get abroad abroad.”