The Taliban have arrested a professor who recently denounced during a televised interview the fundamentalists’ ban on women studying at universities in Afghanistan, officials have confirmed.
Abdulhaq Hamad, a senior official at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, said on his Twitter social network account that Professor Ismail Mashal carried out «provocative activities against the system.» «The security agencies took him away for interrogation,» he said.
Mashal recently walked around the capital, Kabul, with a cart full of books to hand them out for free and with a banner that read that Islam gives the same right to education to men and women.
She also tore up all her diplomas and certificates during an interview with the Afghan television channel Tolo TV to protest against the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education, amid international criticism of the group.
The Taliban recently ordered the country’s universities, both public and private, to bar female students from this year’s entrance exam, an order that extends the initial restriction, announced in December, that strictly barred women from university higher education until further notice.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
