Kabul professor tears up diplomas on live TV to protest Taliban ban on women's education - CNN

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A Kabul prof tore up his diplomas unrecorded connected tv successful Afghanistan successful protestation implicit the Taliban’s barring of women from higher education.

The man, named Ismail Mashal, is laminitis of the backstage Mashal University successful Kabul and besides a lecturer astatine Kabul University.

With tears successful his eyes and his dependable quivering, helium ripped up the diplomas during an on-set quality for the country’s Tolo News connected Monday.

“From today, I don’t request these diplomas anymore due to the fact that this state is nary spot for an education. If my sister and my parent can’t study, past I don’t judge this education,” helium said.

He added that the diplomas were for his aggregate Masters and Doctorate degrees, and that they were the originals.

The clip of his quality has since gone viral, including being retweeted by Shabnam Nasimi, the erstwhile argumentation advisor to the Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees, based successful the UK.

“Astonishing scenes arsenic a Kabul assemblage prof destroys his diplomas connected unrecorded TV successful Afghanistan,” tweeted Nasimi, alongside the clip.

The Taliban announced connected December 20 that assemblage acquisition for each pistillate students had been suspended. This follows the authorities barring girls from attending secondary schoolhouse successful March of this year.

It besides comes connected the heels of galore different limitations placed connected women’s freedoms, including their entree to nationalist spaces. In November, women were banned for entering all parks successful Kabul. The aforesaid month, a Taliban authoritative successful Kabul announced that women would beryllium barred from utilizing gyms crossed the country.

Women are besides required to deterioration the hijab and formal modestly successful nationalist nether the Taliban rules.