This Afghan translator risked his life for the U.S. Now they’ve left him to die.
Take urgent action to save Hady and the thousands of Afghan translators the U.S. left behind:
Hady worked for 11 years as an interpreter, supporting UN and US operations in Afghanistan. Hady’s ties to the U.S. and his employment by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees made him a target of the Taliban. He has endured years of threats to his life and has watched hundreds of his fellow translators be tortured and killed.
In spite of the acute risk to his life, the Trump administration turned him away, leaving Hady, his wife, and their 5 children to continue to languish in hiding. Hady and his family live every single day with the constant fear that if they are captured, they will be killed.
Due to the threats against Hady and his family, his pregnant wife wasn’t even able to go to the hospital to safely give birth.
Hady’s decade-long employment by the UN is the cause of the threats to Hady’s life.
Yet, the UN refuses to expedite his case.
The risk of capture only grows with each passing day, and Hady is living in hiding with his children and wife, unable to leave his house — not even to go to the market for food or to go to the hospital for the birth of his newborn baby.
Even while living in hiding and under constant threat, Hady has never backed down from his work as a translator and interpreter.
For the past five years, he has served as a translator and a beloved member of our community Respond Crisis Translation (RCT), a grassroots global language justice organization.
RCT refuses to abandon Hady and the many Afghan translators who, just like him, served the UN and the U.S. government, only to be betrayed and left for dead.
We call on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to protect its own employee of over a decade. Every day they refuse to take action, his entire family’s life is at risk.
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“My family and I are in hiding; we can’t even turn on the lights. We can’t leave our house even to buy food or baby formula.
My only "crime" is serving as a humanitarian worker and refugee rights activist, helping vulnerable refugees. This is my life’s work, and it means I am a target under the current regime. If we are forcibly returned, I have no doubt that I would face arrest, persecution, and likely even death.
And yet, the humanitarian aid entities that I’ve worked for, have turned their backs on me and Afghans like me. I never stop fighting for the lives of Afghans and refugees — now, I humbly ask for your help to save mine.”
-Hady*