The women’s rights activist abducted, jailed and tortured by the Taliban
It was exactly one year ago on Wednesday when prominent Afghan educator Matiullah Wesa was abducted from a mosque by the Taliban, tortured and taken to a facility run by the Islamist group’s intelligence and security agency where he would spend the next seven months incarcerated.
Wesa’s only offence was becoming too popular online, with viral social media posts celebrating his door-to-door campaign promoting eduction for girls in the crisis-hit country. The Taliban has enforced a brutal misogynist regime in Afghanistan, banishing women and girls from schools, offices and public spaces, since taking control of the country by force in August 2021.
