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Matiullah Wesa, whose Pen Path organization worked to ensure education access for all Afghans, was detained over "his activities and high-level meetings with Westerners."

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UNAMA calls on the de facto authorities to clarify his whereabouts, the reasons for his arrest and to ensure his access to legal representation and contact with family.

The United Nations says an Afghan rights activist who has campaigned for girls' education has been arrested in Kabul

KABUL: The United Nations said on Tuesday that a prominent Afghan girls’ education activist was arrested in Kabul this week and called on Taliban authorities to clarify the reason for his detention. Spokespeople for the Taliban administration’s information ministry and intelligence agency did not immediately respond to request for comment or confirm the detention. “Matiullah

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An Afghan rights activist who has campaigned for girls' education has been arrested in Kabul, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

A prominent activist who campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been arrested by Taliban authorities in Kabul.

Matiullah Wesa, whose Pen Path has opened more than 100 schools in Afghanistan: "Please don’t take away our education and our rights."

Matiullah Wesa, a prominent flagbearer of women's right to study in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, was arrested by country's hardliner administration on Monday in Kabul when he came out of a mosque.  Wesa is the founder-president of Pen Path, a non-profit which with its extensive pan-Afghanistan network of volunteers, continues to provide education to young Afghans including country's women who have been barred from attending high schools and universities by Taliban.