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Taliban security personnel leave after the conclusion of an inauguration ceremony of a 5000-bed rehabilitation camp for drug addicts, at the interior ministry in Kabul on Feb 1. 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 on Friday. - AFP

Protesters burn a portrait of Rasmus Paludan, leader of Danish far-right political party Hard Line, in front of the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul on Jan 22, 2023. - (Photo by YASIN AKGUL / AFP)

Afghan girls from a private university celebrate their graduation in Kabul, Afghanistan, 04 January 2023. A group of 24 male and nine female students at a private university were graduated from the Faculty of Medicine on 04 January. The ruling Taliban has banned women from attending university in Afghanistan, according to an order issued on 20 December 2022. - EPA

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A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on December 22 against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. (Photo by AFP)

Despite the Taliban's claim to have ended their repressive ways, the signs are inauspicious. A new interim government is unveiled in September, with hardliners in all key posts and no women. - AFP pic

Basic human rights, freedom of expression and freedoms for Afghan women and girls are increasingly being restricted by the Taliban government, says UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov

On Saturday, Afghanistan's supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada approved a strict dress code for women when they are in public. - AFP

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Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls. - AFP