(UPDATED) KABUL: Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on Wednesday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the South Asian nation's Taliban rulers banned them from higher education in another assault on human rights.
Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power in August last year, the hardline Islamists have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women's lives, ignoring international outrage.
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