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Afghan women hold protest against harsh restrictions in capital Kabul to demand education and work

Dozens of Afghan women held a protest against the Taliban's harsh restrictions on their rights in capital Kabul by chanting "bread, work, freedom". "Education is my right! Reopen schools!" chanted the protesters, many of them wearing face-covering veils, as they gathered in front of the ministry of education.

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Demonstrators marched for a few hundred metres before ending the rally as authorities deployed Taliban fighters in plain clothes, an AFP correspondent reported.