Calls mounted Wednesday for the Taliban to free a girls' education activist arrested earlier this week in Kabul, as a government minister defended the detention.
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Since their takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban have imposed restrictions on women’s and minority rights. Girls are barred from school beyond the sixth grade and last year, the Taliban banned women from going to universities. Abdul Haq Humad, the director of publications at the Ministry of Information and Culture, defended the detention.
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