Italian citizenship as prosecutor of Herat Bashir, Cartabia: “commitment in defense of Afghan women”

“With the granting of citizenship to Mareya Bashir, Italy welcomes a magistrate who has fought so hard for the construction of the rule of law and for the freedom and equality of women in Afghanistan. With this provision, our country also renews its closeness and its concrete commitment, in defense of all the other women still exposed to violence in that country “. The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, comments on the decision of the Council of Ministers to confer Italian citizenship for special merits on the former Prosecutor General of the Herat province, who had already been welcomed in Rome by the Minister of Justice on 9 September. Citizenship is granted by a decree of the President of the Republic. “All my thanks to the president Sergio Mattarella: everyone is aware of the sensitivity with which he closely follows the vicissitudes of the Afghan people and in particular the conditions of women – underlined Cartabia – For the conferral of this citizenship, in addition to the president of the Council, Mario Draghi, I want to thank the ministers Luciana Lamorgese and Luigi Di Maio, for supporting my report. But also the Minister of Defense, Lorenzo Guerini, and through him all our Armed Forces, for having helped the Prosecutor Bashir and many other Afghan citizens to save themselves “. For the Keeper of Seals” by conferring citizenship on Mareya Bashir, l ‘Italy also wants to show its effective closeness to all the other Afghan women, who continue to fight for their freedom and their rights, even paying a high price for them ”.