| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | international
Afghanistan: Rounded up from the streets into Taliban drug rehab
Afghanistan: Rounded up from the streets into Taliban drug rehab
"I was under the bridge trying to get some drugs when I felt a hand grab me from behind. It was the Taliban. They had come to take us away."
Mohamed Omar recalls the moment Taliban soldiers showed up unexpectedly at the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge in western Kabul.
Long before the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, the area was a notorious hangout for drug addicts.
In recent months, they have been rounding up hundreds of men across the capital - from the bridge, from parks and from the hilltops. Most have been taken to a former US military base, which has been turned into a makeshift rehabilitation centre. (BBC, Uk, 03.04.2023)