Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have "beaten and detained" an academic who voiced outrage on live television against their ban on women's university education, his aide said Friday. Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, and Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem exit the “Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims” exhibit folowing its unveiing at the United Nations Headquarters on January 26, 2023 in New York City, USA. (Photo by John Lamparski/NurPhoto) (Photo by John Lamparski / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP) A spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for the immediate release of veteran journalism lecturer Ismail Mashal and denounced "backsliding" by the Taliban on issues of women. Mashal caused a storm by tearing his degree certificates to shreds on TV in December, protesting the edict ending women's higher education. In recent days, domestic channels … [Read more...] about Taliban detain Afghan educator who protested women’s school ban