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Taliban detain professor who backed women’s education

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 disrespectful manner by members of the Islamic Emirate,” Mashal’s aide Farid Ahmad Fazli told AFP, referring to the Taliban government.A Taliban official confirmed the detention.“Teacher Mashal had indulged in provocative actions against the system for some time,” tweeted Abdul Haq Hammad, director at the minis

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