(Dutch News) The immigration service IND has ruled two women should be deported to Afghanistan even though the Netherlands is involved in a separate international court case about the Taliban’s discriminatory laws against women.
The IND said the fundamentalist Islamic regime was no reason to grant asylum to the women, aged 59 and 79, because they were insufficiently “westernised,” Trouw newspaper reported.
In the case of the 79-year-old woman, the IND said she had not demonstrated that she would be unable to adapt to life under the Taliban. The district court in The Hague ordered the immigration service to review its decision, but the IND stood by its ruling. An appeal is due to be heard in November.
