Wellington offers an entry spot to Charlotte Bellis following wide outcry over her struggle to return.
New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis said she was unable to return to her home country to give birth
The Taliban has been regularly criticised for brutally clamping down on women's rights in recent months. They have been accused of arresting, torturing and even killing activists and campaigners. He denied that the action had come as a result of the the attention on her case, saying staff dealt daily with emergency applications.The New Zealand government had previously said it had twice offered consular assistance to Ms Bellis, who wrote about her experience in a national newspaper on Sunday., Ms Bellis said the government had last week rejected her application to return home to give birth.
She compared that experience to the way she was treated by the Taliban, whom she had contacted to ask if she would be welcome in Afghanistan as an unmarried pregnant woman. "When the Taliban offers you - a pregnant, unmarried woman - safe haven, you know your situation is messed up," she wrote.
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