Sediq Afghan
Muhammad Sediq Afghan صدیق افغان | |
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| موسس ریاضی فلسفی جهان | |
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| Born | March 20, 1958 |
| Nationality | Afghanistan |
| Alma mater | Lipetsk State Pedagogical University |
| Website | sediqafghan |
Sediq Afghan (Dari: صدیق افغان ) is an Afghan political activist.[1] He is the founder and head of the World Philosophical Math Research Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul about Afghanistan- and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003,[2] a hunger strike to protest beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.[3][4]
References
- ^ BALKH: MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHER MOHAMMAD SEDIQ AFGHAN HONOURED, UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN (UNAMA), 12 Jun 2012
- ^ Reuters (2003) First Anti-American Protest Held in Afghan Capital Archived 2012-09-26 at the Wayback Machine News article posted at CommonDreams.org, accessed on 2010-02-01.
- ^ Anand Gopal (2008-03-10). "Danish cartoons: one Afghan's peaceful protest". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on 2010-10-30.
- ^ Azizullah Habibi. "Issue #12 - June 2006". Internews Newsletter on Freedom of Journalism in Afghanistan. Internews Network. Archived from the original on 21 October 2007.