“I wanted to take advantage of this unique moment to remind the world, without aggression, without controversy but with very simple and very neutral words, what is happening in Afghanistan,” she explained to us this Thursday at the Olympic village in Saint-Denis, where she plans to stay until the closing ceremony. “For three years, girls have not been able to study and women are no longer allowed to leave their homes without a man present, even just to go to a public garden,” she explained. “They are literally locked up in their homes. This is the reality of my country and I still cannot accept it.”
