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Lead] The Taliban, which reoccupied Afghanistan after the US withdrew last year, banned all female students from university education.
Criticism is pouring in on the increasingly blatant oppression of women's rights by the Taliban.
This is reporter Kim Young-ah's report.
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Weeping pours out from a classroom full of female students.
Students weep when they hear the news that the Taliban government has completely banned female students from university education.
The Taliban sent letters to universities across Afghanistan yesterday local time notifying that female students are barred from attending classes until further notice.
Following the closure of women's middle and high schools earlier, in effect, women's educational opportunities were completely deprived.
Armed police have been deployed at the main gates of universities across the country, including in the capital Kabul, to prevent female students from going to school.
Protests against the Taliban's ban on women's education are spreading at universities across the country.
[Don't make education politics!]
At one university, male students and male professors staged a class boycott campaign.
[Mahro Mahrin/Member of Afghan Women's Unity Alliance: We do not want to be excluded.
It is really regrettable that the international community, the United Nations, and international human rights organizations are silent about this situation.]
After returning to power in August last year, the Taliban promised to guarantee the rights of women and minorities, but women are banned from education, as well as from parks, gyms and public baths.
[Stefan Dujarric/UN Spokesperson: Another clear breach of promise.
After the Taliban came to power, the number of women in Afghanistan continues to decrease.]
The international community condemned with one voice that "Afghan will never become a member of the international community without improving women's rights."