In 2002, when Matiullah Wesa was a teenager, armed gunmen burned his school. It was this, he told openDemocracy, that led him to dedicate his life to ensuring other children in Afghanistan can get an ...

When Matiullah Wesa was 9 years old, Taliban insurgents torched his community school in Marouf District in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province. Terrified and disappointed, Wesa thought this ...

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Afghanistan's Taliban confirmed Wednesday to VOA that they had detained a prominent education activist in the county, saying the man is being interrogated for "suspicious" activities. The confirmation ...

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An Afghan activist who campaigned for girls' access to education was released from detention on Thursday, more than seven months after he was arrested by Taliban authorities, his family said.

The Taliban government barred girls from attending secondary school and then university last year, making Afghanistan the only country in the world to issue such restrictions on education. Matiullah ...

Kabul (AFP) – An Afghan activist who campaigned for girls' education was released after seven months in detention on Thursday, his family said, the latest high-profile detainee to be released by ...