Had been forced to flee Afghanistan, transformed by the Taliban into an open-air women's prison,
Torpekai Amarkhel, the 42-year-old Afghan journalist who died in the shipwreck of the boat in Steccato di Cutro.
Her husband and two children were also killed with her, while a third 7-year-old girl is still among the missing
, according to some Kabul media reports.
The journalist's sister, Midas, arrived in Crotone from Rotterdam, probably the final stage of Torpekai's desperate journey.
You have given a mandate to the pool of lawyers created in the Calabrian city to assist the families of the victims to represent you in the legal proceedings that will arise from the investigation underway at the Prosecutor's Office.
His sister's death has thrown colleagues at UNAMA, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan into despair: "It is devastating news" reads the comments of those who had worked side by side on it.
With the UN you had collaborated for years in Kabul on the 'Unama News' project
, after a stint on the Afghan national radio.
Lastly,
he created photographic services on the condition of women
, a trade banned like all the others.
Because women in Afghanistan can't work except in a few exceptions, they can't leave the house without a veil or even go to the playground with their children, not even with a burqa.
After the fall of the Taliban in 2002, "
, Torpekai remembered a few years ago.
At the time, she was working with an all-female team of radio journalists.
"Of course, there are more women today who do this job - she said in 2017 -. But in the field, outside the office they show up in a burqa, they do interviews with the burqa on. It's not easy to convince them that it's an important job for them ".
She hoped that more could be done, without remotely imagining that just a few years later the country would have sunk back into the Taliban Middle Ages.
And that she would be forced to flee, embark on that cursed boat that killed her and her loved ones.
Drown yourself in a terrifying night to escape the Taliban hell.
