Founder of Afghan girls’ school project arrested in Kabul
Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Education Ministry in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls. – AFP pic, March 28, 2023.
THE founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said today. The Taliban government last year barred girls from attending secondary school and later university, making Afghanistan the only country in the world to issue such restrictions on education.
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