Afghan Women Speak Out On University Ban: "Beheading Would've Been Better"

The ban by the hardline Islamist government has sparked global outrage, including from Muslim nations who deemed it against Islam.

Marwa was just a few months away from becoming the first woman in her Afghan family to go to university -- instead, she will watch achingly as her brother goes without her.

Women are now banned from attending university in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where they have been steadily stripped of their freedoms over the past year.

"Had they ordered women to be beheaded, even that would have been better than this ban," Marwa told AFP at her family home in Kabul.

"If we are to be so unlucky, I wish that we hadn't been born at all. I'm sorry for my existence in the world.