Women have been bound from secondary schools, universities and NGOs. The Supreme Leader Abitula Akanzada has an absolute veto on policy. He even once recruited his own son to become a suicide bomber. It's unlikely that we're going to see any change on women and girls.
Their return to rule is unequivocally bad for the country’s women and girls. But wholesale collapse has not come and some aspects of government have improved; it turns out threats of grotesque violence change behaviours. We investigate the curious case of Morocco’s absent king—and his unlikely mixed-martial-artist pals. And how the mobile phone has shaped cinema for half a century.
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