A pregnant New Zealand journalist who was stranded in Afghanistan said she will return home after her government offered a pathway back
Pregnant New Zealand Journalist Stranded in Afghanistan Will Finally Be Allowed to Return Home
“I will be returning to my home country New Zealand at the beginning of March to give birth to our baby girl,” Bellis said in a statement. “We are so excited to return home and be surrounded by family and friends at such a special time.” She said on Sunday that each day was a battle. Now 25 weeks pregnant, she said she had tried without success to enter New Zealand via a lottery-style system and then applied for an emergency return, but was rejected.
Bunny said the publicity surrounding the case was not a deciding factor and the sole consideration was Bellis’s safety. Hopping from country to country on tourist visas while she waited to have her baby would have cost money and left her without health care, so she and Huylebroek returned to Afghanistan because they had a visa, felt welcome and from there could wage her battle to return to her home.
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