September 06, 2019

Sediqa Sherzai - a lone fighter running a feminist radio station in Afghanistan

Radio Roshani from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz is run by women, promoting women's rights, broadcasting today despite several attempts by the Taliban to kill its founder and editor, as BBC reports. Sedika Sherzai set up Radio Roshani in 2008, at first the Taliban warned Sediqa to stop broadcasting, in 2009, rockets were fired at the station, and in 2015 the Taliban took over the city, destroyed the station's archives, stole its equipment and planted mines in the building. Soon they were driven out of the city, Sediqa replaced the missing equipment and continued broadcasting. She isn't planning to quit - "because we just couldn't give in to threats".