CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
CNN
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A outstanding activist for ladies’ schooling in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, in response to an official, the most recent step in its repressive clampdown on the rights of Afghan ladies.
Matiullah Wesa, 30, is well-known for his activism and is the founding father of PenPath1, a non-governmental group that travels to essentially the most distant areas in Afghanistan to arrange cell school rooms.
For the reason that hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021, the Taliban has stripped away freedoms arduous gained by ladies who’ve fought tirelessly over the previous 20 years.
A few of its most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with women barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving a whole technology of educational alternatives.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) mentioned Wesa was arrested within the capital Kabul on Monday and referred to as on the Taliban to make clear his whereabouts.
“UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to make clear his whereabouts, the explanations for his arrest and to make sure his entry to authorized illustration and speak to with household,” UNAMA tweeted.
Wesa has lengthy advocated for ladies schooling in Afghanistan, particularly in rural areas, and his Twitter account is filled with posts calling for faculties to reopen to women and girls.
“Males, ladies, aged, younger, everybody from each nook of the nation are asking for the Islamic rights to schooling for his or her daughters,” Wesa mentioned in his final tweet earlier than his arrest.
Two of Wesa’s brothers had been additionally arrested, Attaullah Wesa mentioned in a video posted on Twitter. Attaullah Wesa is one other of Wesa’s brothers.
“Samiullah and Wali Muhammad had been additionally arrested,” he mentioned. “They took them and tied their palms.”
Attaullah Wesa, who’s now in hiding, mentioned the Taliban insulted their youngsters, mom, and the entire household and took away their telephones.
“We’re the individuals of the Pen. We have now been engaged on this for 15 years and nonetheless, we don’t again down from this even when they kill us,” Ataullah Wesa mentioned. “We would like a future for this Afghanistan nation that’s outfitted with schooling, this nation has a proper over us.”
Abdul Haq Hammad, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Info and Tradition, claimed he wasn’t conscious of Wesa’s case.
“I don’t know Matiullah Wesa and I don’t learn about his case, but when actions are suspicious authorities has the fitting to ask such individuals for clarification,” he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“And if arrest of a person provokes such broad response, it reveals a large conspiracy was prevented.”
On Monday, Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai mentioned he was “saddened” by the arrest and referred to as on the Taliban to launch Wesa “as quickly as potential.”
“In several provinces of Afghanistan, they’ve made loads of efforts for the schooling of the youngsters of the nation and have offered priceless providers,” Karzai mentioned in an announcement posted to social media.
Following his arrest, Wesa’s supporters demanded his launch on-line utilizing the hashtags #releasematiullahwesa and #releasematiullahwesaSoon.
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, referred to as for his launch, saying Wesa’s NGO offered “cell faculties and libraries to Afghan women and boys.”
“Whereas banning women from college, the Taliban are additionally arresting champions of schooling….The Taliban should launch him and all these imprisoned for educating youngsters,” Yousafzai mentioned on Twitter.
Yousafzai gained worldwide recognition for her activism towards the Taliban’s efforts to cease women from attending college.
When she was 15, she was shot within the head by a member of the Taliban however handle to outlive the assassination try.
Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, referred to as Wesa “an unbelievable champion of women’ schooling” whose solely crime “is his many years previous peaceable marketing campaign for the fitting of women’ schooling.”
Earlier this month, younger Afghan ladies gathered outside Kabul University to protest the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling as their male friends returned to highschool for a brand new educational yr.
The United Nations Particular Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the UN in March the Taliban’s ban on feminine schooling “could quantity to gender persecution, against the law towards humanity.”
Chatting with CNN on Wednesday, Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan ladies’s rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, mentioned it was “unbelievable” the Taliban would arrest Wesa who was not “doing something fallacious.”
Seraj mentioned the time had come for engagement with the Taliban on some degree.
“I do know it sounds completely horrendous…We actually don’t have every other choice,” she mentioned. “I actually don’t understand how lengthy the nation can go on like this. How lengthy we will go on the best way we’re, how lengthy the women will be in Afghanistan and their houses locked up and never having the ability to do their schooling, that will not be the proper method to go.”
