Serious Female journalist fucked got preg cannot return home to locked down NZ

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A pregnant New Zealand journalist has said she had to turn to the Taliban for help after being locked out of her home country due to its strict coronavirus rules.

Charlotte Bellis, who worked for Al Jazeera, said it was "brutally ironic" that she had once questioned the Taliban about their treatment of women and girls and was now asking the same question of her own government.





"When the Taliban offers you - a pregnant, unmarried woman - safe haven, you know your situation is messed up," she wrote in the New Zealand Herald.

New Zealand has imposed some of the strictest lockdowns in the world, shutting its borders and reporting just 52 virus deaths among its five million population.

The country requires returning citizens to spend 10 days in military-run quarantine hotels. Stories of citizens stranded abroad in dire circumstances have caused embarrassment for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

She realised she was pregnant with her partner, freelance photographer Jim Huylebroek, a contributor to The New York Times, days after returning to Qatar - where it is illegal to be pregnant and unmarried.

It was here that she was told by a doctor in Qatar: "I can't treat you and I can only say you need to get married or get out of the country as soon as possible."

Ms Bellis repeatedly tried to get back into New Zealand, waking up at 3am daily to try the country's lottery-style system, but without success.

She resigned from Al Jazeera in November and the couple moved to Mr Huylebroek's native Belgium, but she was only to stay a matter of months because she was not a resident.

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