(CNN)The United Arab Emirates welcomed 41 Afghan evacuees arriving from Tajikistan connected Monday, including 25 members of the Afghan girls' cycling team.
They are being processed successful the UAE earlier heading to Canada to statesman their caller lives.
One woman, who does not privation to beryllium named owed to information reasons, told CNN she feared being a pistillate athlete successful Afghanistan erstwhile the Taliban took over.
"Oh my God, it is truly pugnacious to explicate our concern successful words," she said.
"It's truly hard due to the fact that the main reason, circumstantial reason, that I permission Afghanistan was due to the fact that I was not unafraid arsenic an athlete. I was doing sports successful Afghanistan, but nowadays, that is not harmless ... I was forced to permission my country."
Following astir 2 decades of conflict, the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan's superior and took implicit the country's statesmanlike palace, hardly a period aft the US began the last withdrawal of subject troops from its longest moving war.
On Tuesday, the Taliban announced the enactment of a hardline interim authorities for the country, filling apical posts with veterans of the militant radical who oversaw the 20-year combat against the US-led subject coalition.
'I privation to beryllium that girls are capable'
The Afghan cyclist's communicative of jock evacuation is 1 of respective to look from the Taliban's takeover, pursuing connected from the evacuation of the women's nationalist shot squad past month.
Former Afghanistan women's adjunct manager Haley Carter told CNN however a "ragtag group" managed to coordinate the harmless evacuation of 86 Afghan athletes, officials and household members.
Carter worked intimately with the team's erstwhile captain, Khalida Popal, who had besides spoken to CNN past period regarding the plight of pistillate athletes trapped successful the country.
Explaining however athletics had go a conduit successful the continued combat for women's rights, Popal's sentiments are echoed powerfully successful the cyclist's ain words.
"We utilized to practice, we utilized to person competitions. We adjacent utilized to vie with boys ... And we were happy," she added.
"But nowadays, it is truly disappointing. It hurts america really to spot the concern that the girls volition not beryllium allowed.
"As a miss cyclist, arsenic an jock that I was doing sports successful Afghanistan to basal for rights of human, mostly girls.
"I americium readying to spell retired of my state arsenic I couldn't enactment ... and I privation to proceed my athletics and my education. I privation to beryllium that the girls are capable, that girls person the close to bash what they want.
"They are allowed. They should beryllium allowed to bash their studies, to bash immoderate athletics they privation and to person a beingness that they are expected to have."
Changing
The cyclist's revelations are made each the much poignant by the announcement of a Taliban authoritative that women would not beryllium permitted to play cricket and different sports.
Ahmadullah Wasiq, lawman caput of the Taliban's taste commission, told Australia's SBS News that Afghan women should not play cricket and different sports successful which they would beryllium "exposed."
"In cricket, they mightiness look a concern wherever their look and assemblage volition not beryllium covered. Islam does not let women to beryllium seen similar this," Wasiq told SBS News.
"It is the media era, and determination volition beryllium photos and videos, and past radical ticker it. Islam and the Islamic Emirate bash not let women to play cricket oregon play the benignant of sports wherever they get exposed."
The International Cricket Council requires its 12 afloat members -- which includes Afghanistan -- to person a nationalist women's team.
In November 2020, the Afghanistan Cricket Board announced it had awarded 25 pistillate cricket contracts.
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