Hollywood actor and human rights advocate Angelina Jolie is calling for the release of a man whose decade-long mission has been to educate girls in his country.
Angelina Jolie has written a letter in support of Matiullah Wesa and his work.The women and girls in the video stand shoulder-to-shoulder, holding colourful signs asking for a basic human right: to learn.
Wesa, who co-founded PenPath, a non-government education program that delivers teaching aides and a mobile library to girls in rural and remote Afghanistan, was arrested shortly after for what the militant group said was "self-serving activities and anti-establishment motivations”.Angelina Jolie has written an open letter addressed to Wesa, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, thanking him for his work and calling for his release.
Jolie, whose work outside acting includes social and human rights advocacy, has long supported the rights of Afghan women and girls.“I add my voice with humility to those of everyone calling for your release, so that you can continue your important work, and for the lifting of all restrictions on education for girls,” she writes.Matiullah Wesa has spent his life’s work educating and advocating for the education of boys and girls.
Attaullah is now in hiding himself from the Taliban, and says his brother has been held without charge for five months now. Afghan girls who had been preparing to go to class on the return of the school year were instead told to go back home, sparking tears and protests.The Taliban has always maintained the ban on girls' education is "temporary" and was being looked at.
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