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Taliban detains professor who protested ban on women’s education

In recent days, domestic channels have shown Mashal carting books around the capital, Kabul, and offering them to passers-by [File: AFP]

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have detained an academic who tore up his degrees on live television in protest against a ban on women’s university education in the country, his aide said on Friday.

“From today I don’t need these diplomas any more because this country is no place for an education. If my sister and my mother can’t study, then I don’t accept this education,” veteran journalism lecturer Ismail Mashal said in the video that went viral on social media last month.

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