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Politico (13 June 2025)

Nette Nöstlinger

Germany, like the U.S., is closing its door to Afghans facing persecution by the Taliban.

Shakerah Baresh and her four children were on one of the last planes to Germany.

Baresh, the former principal of a girl’s school in Afghanistan’s northeastern Panjshir province, arrived in Germany with her children at the end of March, just weeks before German Chancellor Friedrich Merz came to power with a vow to drastically curtail the influx of asylum-seekers into Germany.

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