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Taliban detain professor who backed women’s education
KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have “beaten and detained” an academic who voiced outrage on live television against their ban on women’s university education, his aide said yesterday.A spokesman for UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for the immediate release of veteran journalism lecturer Ismail Mashal and denounced “backsliding” by the Taliban on issues of women.Mashal caused a storm by tearing his degree certificates to shreds on TV in December, protesting the edict ending women’s higher education.In recent days, domestic channels showed Mashal carting books around Kabul and offering them to passersby.“Mashal was mercilessly beaten and taken away in a very disrespectfu

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