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Afghan athlete under police protection slams gender apartheid as ‘crime against humanity’

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FRANCE 24 spoke to Marzieh Hamidi, a former taekwondo champion for Afghanistan who has been a refugee in France since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. In late August of this year, she posted a video on social media denouncing “gender apartheid” in her home country. Since early September, when she began receiving death

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Sex-shamed by Taliban and driven out of her homeland – but Afghanistan’s last female taekwondo fighter refuses to give in

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The Independent (UK): Her high front kick could easily take down an opponent and win her a medal in any championship. But in Afghanistan, taekwondo champion Marzieh Hamidi has been sex-shamed by the Taliban and driven out of her homeland. “Many men in Taliban’s Afghanistan have been led to believe women cannot be champions. When

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