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Mah, 22, fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. #googlenews #google #worldnews

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00:00For many people in the UK this week, school has started again.

00:04But for women and girls in Afghanistan, there is still a ban from secondary school classrooms

00:10and much of public life by the Taliban.

00:13Ma, 22, fled from the country in August 2021 when the group swept into the capital Kabul.

00:20She is now getting an education in the UK,

00:23starting a GCSE in English this week and she tells BBC Newsbeat,

00:28I am happy for myself. I am safe, I have freedom, I am free,

00:33but at the same time, my friends in Afghanistan can't do anything," she adds.

00:39In the three years since the Taliban took control, restrictions on women's lives have increased.

00:45Women and girls over 12 are banned from schools

00:48and prevented from sitting most university entrance exams.

00:52There are also restrictions in the work they can do, with beauty salons being closed,

00:58as well as being not being able to go to parks, gyms and sport clubs.

01:03I don't put my picture on WhatsApp or Instagram stories when I'm happy,

01:07when I go out with friends or when I'm in college," Ma says.

01:11Because I don't want my friends back home to feel like,

01:15oh she's in the UK now, she has freedom.

01:18Ma, who is in Cardiff, hopes a GCSE in English is the start to eventually becoming a midwife in

01:25Wales.