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age of 13 for his political activism. He afterward moved to Kabul to resume his studies. In 1979, after the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan, he took part in political resistance against the Soviet-backed regime of the day, resulting in his arrest and imprisonment. During his 18 months-long imprisonment, he was repeatedly tortured and was actually sentenced to death by hanging until he finally won release on the basis of his young age, being only 17 then. For the "crime" of being a family member of Professor Jalal, the Soviet-backed regime captured his younger brother and killed him while Professor Jalal was in prison. Later on, the Mujahidin/warlords' government killed his nephew and cousin due to the political activism of Professor Jalal against extremism. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s Professor Jalal was repeatedly arrested for allegedly teaching liberal course materials in the Law and Political Science Department at Kabul University. Each time he was arrested, he was tortured and threatened. But he persisted.
150:: ููุถ ุงููู ุฌูุงู) was born on 22 May 1963 in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Being a first generation college and high-school student, he served as a law and political science professor at the Kabul University for more than 35 years. He also served as head of the Department of Law and Political Science for 14 years, as the Vice-Chancellor of the Kabul University (one of the principal and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan), and as Deputy Minister for Academic Affairs in the Ministry of Higher Education of Afghanistan. Professor Jalal has a bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science from Kabul University and a master's and Ph.D. in Political Science from the Tajik National University. He is the author of several published books and a variety of articles. His recent books include (1) Political Power and Nation-Building in Afghanistan, (2) The Face of International Terrorism, and (3) An Inquiry into Violence Against Women in Afghanistan.
177:"You can't accomplish anything with terror or forceful rants! This country is the homeland of all the people of Afghanistan. This is not the homeland of just one tribe. This is not the homeland of just one group. This is not the homeland of just one class. This is not the homeland of just 'some' people... National interest is the interest of the entire population of Afghanistan, which has a national component as well as regional and international components: support of the people, contentment of the people, support of the region, contentment of the region, support of the superpowers...I am a professor of law and political science...I have resisted against Pakistan, against Iran, against America and against Russia too. And I have no fears either."
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Professor Jalal's actions and public statements. In 2019, his house in Kabul was bombed by terrorists. Most recently, on January 8, 2022, Professor Faizullah Jalal was forcibly taken from his home by the Taliban. This happened soon after he openly challenged Taliban policies on Afghanistan's most popular TV station โ TOLO News โ and allegedly posted a message on Twitter criticizing the Taliban regime. His TV broadside, delivered "live" in direct response to a Taliban spokesman appearing by video in an interview segment, was watched by many thousands of riveted Afghan viewers. In it, Jalal vigorously declared:
191:, Scholars at Risk, members of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, the UK Parliament, and multiple Afghan diplomatic missions still associated with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan called for his liberation, along with many rights activists and individual scholars who found his detention deplorable as an arbitrary assault on personal and academic freedom. In the face of this unprecedented international outcry for this advocate for all Afghans, and after the Twitter account from which Professor Jalal supposedly issued critical tweets has been proven fake, Professor Jalal was freed from prison. Daughter
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Afghanistan itself by embodying its people's aspirations and their indomitable fortitude, even in the face of fear, destruction and despair.
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Faizullah Jalal has been an activist for human rights, peace, equality, and democracy in Afghanistan for almost four decades, standing up for these causes in the face of a series of governments. In 1976, while still in his hometown of Badakhshan, he was expelled from middle school at the
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told VOA News afterward that domestic and international pressure had led to her father's release. Speaking on VOA sister network Radio Azadi, Jalal himself insisted true to form that despite the
Taliban warning him to be more respectful, he would continue "telling the truth".
183:"And I am saddened by the current situation in Kabul! People don't have food to eat. And the security...do you know what security means? People can't speak freely... people are actively escaping . They must self-critique and must reform themselves."
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