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EXCLUSIVE: Armed only with a pen, her love of freedom and inspiration from the books of British author Virginia Woolf, Wahida Amiri dared to stand up to violent Taliban gunmen. Now, two years on from their return to power in Afghanistan, she is still calling out the brutal, misogynistic regime. ....
Wahida Amiri worked as an ordinary librarian before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August. But when the militants started to strip women of their rights, she became one of the leading voices against them. She told the BBC's Sodaba Haidare how protesting against Taliban rule led to her arrest and why she decided to ....
One protestor told Insider that talking to the Taliban doesn't work but the protests have brought international attention to Afghan women's issues. ....