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TOI Sports Desk | TIMESOFINDIA.COM

Afghanistan's first female Olympian urges IOC to keep country out of Paris Games

NEW DELHI: Friba Rezayee, Afghanistan's pioneering female judoka and the country's first woman to compete in the Olympics, has launched a campaign urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to exclude Afghanistan from the upcoming Paris Games due to the Taliban's human rights violations.

Rezayee, who represented Afghanistan at the 2004 Athens Olympics, has been deeply troubled by the treatment of women since the Taliban's resurgence and advocates for the IOC to take a stand against the oppressive regime.

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