My name is Bibi Halima.
I am 26 years old, Tajik from the north province of Afghanistan. I have 3 children.
In 2017, my husband was a government employee and one day, he went to work, unfortunately a suicide attack explosion happened in Kabul, and I lost my husband.
From 2017 up to 15-Aug-2021, I worked at a non-profit organization. When Taliban took control of Afghanistan, I lost my job and was jobless for a few months.
It was hard for me to care for three children without my husband in Afghanistan. I started cleaning and went to people's home for cleaning, cooking, and caring for their children. They would paid 3 up to 5 USD$ per day. I worked 5 or 6 days per week.
In December 2022, I worked in the home of a high-ranking Taliban. Several times, he told me to marry him. I told him, please don't bother me. I don't want to get married.
I left this home and found another home for work and after a few days, in January 2023, that taliban man - who I stopped working for - came to my home and told me, "You stole my wife's gold. I want to put you in jail."
I cried, I told him I don't know about your wife's gold jewelry.
He said "I need to go to his home and talk with his wife."
The next day, I went to his home but, he was alone with his two bodyguards, and he told me if I don't have sex with him, he will put me in jail. I ran out of the room but his bodyguard ran after me and I escaped from the room, and his security guard grabbed me. All three started to rape me.
For several hours, they raped me multiple times. At some point, I passed out. When I woke up later, they started again for several hours.
I passed out again and later, when I woke up, the senior taliban man said he would kill me if I spoke about this.
He then brought in a doctor to his home and the doctor gave me some medicine and his driver then dropped me off at my home.
Two days I was gone, my children were so scared.