AFP :
An Afghan woman protester who went missing after taking part in a rally against the Taliban had been detained by the hardline Islamists for several weeks before being released Friday, a relative and an activist said.Parwana Ibrahimkhel went missing in Kabul on January 19 along with another female protester Tamana Zaryabi Paryani just days after they participated in a women’s rally calling for rights to work and education. The Taliban, the hardline fundamentalists who now rule Afghanistan, had denied the two women protesters were detained by them, but on Friday a close relative of Ibrahimkhel told AFP that she had been released after being detained by the group for weeks.
