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Aisha Khurram retweeted
Discussion happening tomorrow - Students, Scholars, and National Security: Afghanistan, Sudan, and Beyond - Leaving No One Behind.
There's an important discussion tomorrow on the UK visa brake and the students and scholars it has shut out, with Afghanistan and Sudan as the core cases. It runs on 22 October 2026 from 16:30 at Southall Town Hall, 1 High Street, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HA - an in-person event with an online contributor, open to an invited audience.
Hosted by Human Rights Solidarity (HRS) and Southall Community Alliance (SCA), with @A_CAA and @dpg_law , the event examines the brake in force since 26 March 2026, which refuses Student and Skilled Worker visa applications from outside the UK by nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan. With the August 2026 judgment, a pending appeal, and the September reopening of the UK Resettlement Scheme, it is a timely, solutions-focused conversation about what the brake does to people, universities, and future talent - and what the government says it is for.
Contributors:
.Mariam Sorour (Human Rights Officer; Southall Community Alliance)
.Unkha Banda (Solicitor, Deighton Pierce Glynn)
.Aisha Khurram (Afghan human rights activist, former Youth Representative of Afghanistan to the UN) (online participant)
.Burak Batuhan Karakus (Executive Director, Human Rights Solidarity)
.Dr. Nooralhaq Nasimi MBE (Director, ACAA)
.Darius Nasimi (Head of Funding and Partnerships, Afghanistan and Central Asian Association)
.Gulsom Gohar (Former Prosecutor in Afghanistan)
The session includes open discussion and audience Q&A. Come along if you can the door is open and you'll be warmly welcomed.
Aisha Khurram retweeted
For Afghan girls above grade six, female madrasas have become the only remaining legal education option. But this is not simply a substitute for school.
@TimorSharan looks at what girls are being taught and the wider implications for gender roles and society.
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Aisha Khurram retweeted
This is huge! Very significant. Not only the additional arrest warrants which are significant but also the analysis of persecution on the grounds of gender and its application to the policies and practices of the Taliban.
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This month, I was supposed to start my Master's in Diplomatic Studies at Oxford.
Instead, I was denied a UK student visa, not for lacking the grades or qualifications, but simply because I am Afghan.
Hundreds of students from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and Cameroon face the
Aisha Khurram retweeted
Aisha Khurram, 27, was supposed to study alongside me at the Diplomatic Studies Programme at Oxford.
She had to flee the Taliban because she was the first female Afghan youth representative to the UN.
“I survived Taliban. I survived displacement. I had to rebuild my education” she says.
The UK will not let her in the country.
But Ismail Haniyeh’s bodyguard was granted citizenship
Aisha Khurram retweeted
🔴 Day 1,815 since the Taliban stopped Afghan girls attending secondary school.
We need a total reversal of this discriminatory policy.
Humanitarian aid must be able to reach the thousands of Afghans in need.
And Afghan girls in Iran and Pakistan must not be forced back to a country where their education and freedom are denied.
You are not forgotten.
#Afghanistan #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #Afghans
Some days, i miss home.
Today, l grieve it.
Five years since we watched Afghan women losing their classrooms, careers, freedom and their right to a future. And I still can’t believe how quickly the world learned to live with it.
Girls in Afghanistan have been barred from formal education beyond grade six since September 2021, and women from universities since December 2022.
"UNICEF calls on the de facto authorities to lift the restrictions on education and allow all girls and women to return to schools and universities immediately," - @unicefchief
Read more: unicef.link/3TMjEUZ
ALT More than 2.6 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied a secondary education since 2021. Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is effectively closed to girls and women.
Aisha Khurram retweeted
Thinking of #Afghan girls 1,641 days since they were shut out of classrooms as a matter of Taliban policy.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is strictly forbidden to girls and women, according to a Unesco report published last year.
You are not alone. You are not forgotten.
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Talking with family in Kabul tonight and I could hear the sound of bombs in the background.
The world is so consumed by overlapping crises that even Pakistan’s illegal invasion and air strikes on Afghanistan barely register in international media.
Right at this moment, millions of innocent lives remain trapped between a repressive regime and a neighbor’s invasion in Afghanistan
#afganistanpakistanwar
Horrifying! I don’t know what liberation looks like but it certainly doesn’t look like this.
Beautiful #Tehran is burning in fire!
On #WomensDay2026 the world posts flowers & slogans
In Afghanistan, women count five years of closed doors.
Classrooms empty. Parks forbidden. Voices silenced.
Half a nation imprisoned for being born female.
Celebration feels hollow while they are still waiting for freedom.
Aisha Khurram retweeted
Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists
The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"?
Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law
Aisha Khurram retweeted
Young Afghan woman: "If you're a woman and you have a toothache, you CANNOT get it treated... Women are denied the right to education and cannot become dentists; and men are NOT allowed to treat women."
#StoneAge
Four years under a Taliban regime born/backed by Pakistan and still Afghans bleed. Now we are trapped in the blowback of proxy conflicts with TTP
This endless cycle of power games is destroying real families, real children real futures
What you unleash will not stay contained!
