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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  KABUL: 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 on Friday.
  "Mashal was mercilessly beaten and taken away in a very disrespectful manner by members of the Islamic Emirate," Mashal's aide Farid Ahmad Fazli said, referring to the Taliban government.
  In deeply conservative and patriarchal Afghanistan it is rare to see a man protest in support of women but Mashal, who ran a co-educational institute, said he would stand up for women's rights.
  
  
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  Isn't that the man who tore up his teaching degrees and certificates while giving an empassioned speech on live television? I hope he will he released quickly and unharmed. He is one of the remaining rays of hope left for the future of Afghanistan's education system.