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Afghan Women Protest Expulsion of Female University Students, Curbs on Education

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Bburqa-clad Afghan women take an entrance test at Mamon Tahiri institute in Kandahar, Afghanistan. [VOA]

A large group of women activists in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday staged a protest rally against the expulsion of dozens of female students from a Kabul University hostel by Taliban authorities.

The demonstrators, including students, gathered outside the university campus, chanting, "Education is our red line" and "silence is treason."

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