‘We lost everything’: Afghan wheelchair basketball team captain speaks out

Nilofar Bayat begins rebuilding her life in Spain after days of fear for her life under Taliban rule

When the Taliban entered Kabul, Nilofar Bayat, the captain of Afghanistan's female national wheelchair basketball team, knew she had to get out.

There were so many videos of me playing basketball. I had been active in calling for women's rights and the rights of women with disabilities," she said. If the Taliban found out all of this about me, I knew they would kill me."