Zarifa Ghafari, right, former mayor of Maidan Shahr and Afghan women's rights activist, who arrived with her family in Cologne last Monday, is pictured with her husband Bashir, left, prior an interview with the Associated Press outside a hotel in Duesseldorf, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Ghafari became the mayor of the Afghan town of Maidan Shahr in 2018, at the age of 26. She was a recipient of the the U.S. State Department's 2020 International Women of Courage award. According to the State Department, she has survived at least six assassination attempts.

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Wed., Aug. 25, 2021