3. Biodata:
Mrs. Kobra Hassani Kubra Hassani was born 1997 in Afghanistan. She fled Afghanistan and applied for asylum in Russia after the Taliban came to power, flew from Moscow to Kabul on Tuesday June 25, 2024.

In May 2023, a Russian court ordered for Hassani to be deported from Russia. Later, she was charged with attempting to illegally leave Russia for the E.U. as part of a group and by prior conspiracy. In January 2024, her asylum application was denied The following month, the court found her guilty of the border crossing charges but ruled that her sentence had been served during her time in pre-trial detention and overturned her deportation order.

The sentence had fueled fears that Hassani would be imprisoned and tortured if deported from Russia to Afghanistan. Hassani  had covered women’s rights on Afghan television, She has worked for Afghan television channels and the American companies National Radio and Television and Afghanistan Television.  She also had a restaurant in Kabul.

Hassani escaped the Taliban through Tajikistan and initially settled in Kyiv after the Islamic fundamentalist group came to power in Afghanistan in 2021. 

Hassani attempted to flee to Poland after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but she was instead taken to Russian-controlled Ukraine and then to Moscow through various intermediaries.