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Matiullah Wesa, a girls' education advocate, reads to students in the open area in Spin Boldak district in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan on May 21, 2022. The Taliban have freed the Afghan activist who campaigned for the education of girls, a local nonprofit organization said Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Wesa was arrested seven months ago and spent 215 days in prison, according to the group, Pen Path. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Khan)

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Girls stand in their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. The new Afghan educational year started, but high school remained closed for girls for the second year after Taliban returned to power in 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Calls mount for Taliban to free girls’ education activist

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Taliban fighters stand guard at the explosion site, near the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 27, 2023. A suicide bomber has struck near the foreign ministry in the Afghan capital, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN says Afghan girls’ education activist arrested in Kabul

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