Wasi and his brother pray for their family’s safety as the holy month of Ramadan ends and the Taliban continues to rule Afghanistan.
Abdul Wasi Safi speaks from Houston with his father in Afghanistan on Friday, April 21, 2023. Friday was Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.
Yet Wasi continues to feel on edge. He lives with the constant fear of deportation. His physical recovery is slow, and he likely will live the rest of his life with disabilities. Not a day passes that Wasi doesn’t think about the rest of his family in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.Abdul Wasi Safi stands in the foreground of Afghan military vehicles surrounded by HESCO barriers and concrete bunkers.After spending months crossing the world, Wasi was arrested at the U.S.
“If I call to police, police take me,” Wasi said. He didn’t want to be taken from his brother, detained again or deported to a country whose government was trying to kill him. After Wasi’s initial release from the detention center, his brother Sami took him straight to a dentist. A month earlier, the same dentist told Wasi “to seek dental treatment once beyond the scope of routine dental treatment and that extraction is the only other treatment available.”
Mentally, he still deals with trauma. He often thinks about the country he tried to protect from the Taliban. He wonders if he’ll ever see his family — who are harassed for their sons’ involvement with the U.S. — again. He agonizes over his ex-fiancee who said he was a different person after being held captive. He tries to reconcile how he was treated like a criminal at the U.S. border and in custody.
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