A protest broke out at a university in the eastern city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, following the Taliban's decision to ban female students from higher education. Both men and women held signs and chanted outside the school on the day the ban started. The decision was announced through a letter to both private and government universities by the higher education minister, just three months after thousands of students sat entrance exams
Taliban ban Afghan women from university education
‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban