Behesht Collective

30/04/2025

Thanks to TÊTU for featuring the Taliban's imprisonment of Maeve Alcina Pieescu and Maryam Ravish to their audience in France and around the world.

Maeve, jeune femme trans, et Maryam, lesbienne, ont été arrêtés à Kaboul alors qu'elles tentaient de fuir l'Afghanistan. Elles risquent la peine de mort.

22/04/2025

Please join Roshaniya’s CEO Nemat Sadat and Program Associate Parwen Hussaini for a panel discussion about the impacts on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises.

Date: Wednesday April 23, 2025
Start time: 11 am GMT in London / 2:30 pm in Kabul

22/04/2025

We appreciate Q***r News Tonight for telling the world about the detention of Maeve Pieescu and Maryam Ravish in Taliban captivity.

Two young LGBTQ activists named Maeve and Maryam Ravish were arrested by the Taliban last month while attempting to flee Afghanistan. The U.K.-based Peter Ta...

22/04/2025

We call upon the Taliban to end the illegal incarceration of Maeve Alcina Pieescu and Maryam Ravish.

Two LGBTQ+ women imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan are being tortured 'daily' according to their friends and partners.

22/04/2025

There is no stronger force in the word than true love. That is why LGBT+ Afghans will endure and prevail in the end.

The Taliban have arrested two prominent LGBTQ activists from Afghanistan: Maryam Ravish, a le***an, and Maeve Alcina Pieescu, a trans woman. Activists fear they will be forced to name others and may be executed under strict Sharia law.

11/04/2025

Thanks to DNA Magazine for joining the chorus in demanding that Maeve Alcina Pieescu & Maryam Ravish be released from Taliban captivity.

The Taliban have arrested and imprisoned two leading underground Afghan LGBTQIA+ activists in Kabul. Maryam Ravish, a 19-year-old le***an, and Maeve Alcina Pieescu, a 23-year-old trans woman, face …

05/04/2025

Thankful to PinkNews for reporting about the imprisonment of Maeve Alcina Pieescu and Maryam Ravish and for always documenting our community’s struggle for liberation.

Two LGBTQ+ activists have been arrested and imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and their lives are said to be in “grave danger”.

05/04/2025

We cherish Attitude Magazine for telling the world about our heroes—Maeve Alcina Pieescue and Maryam Ravish—who are still held in Taliban captivity.

"It is possible they'll be placed in solitary confinement and stoned to death" says the partner of one of the detained

05/04/2025

We appreciate Gay Community News for giving voice to and Maeve Alcina Pieescu and Maryam Ravish who are still in Taliban captivity.

Two members of the q***r community have been detained by Taliban authorities as they were trying to leave Afghanistan.

03/04/2025

LGBT+ Afghan activists Maeve Alcina Pieescu, Maryam Ravish, and Parwen Hussaini had big dreams of starting a new life in Europe. Sadly, nefarious forces conspired against them. Maeve and Maryam are held in Taliban captivity and Parwen is on the run in Iran with no rescue path in sight. But, not all is lost. The soul that desires freedom will never give up.

31/03/2025

Why can’t these lovers—Parwen Hussaini and Maryam Ravish—live in peace and harmony?

Their families, Afghan society, and the Taliban stand in their way of being alive and happy.

Parwen is hiding in Iran and Maryam is held in a prison in Kabul.