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‘We have your location’: The Taliban death threats hounding this Afghan woman | CNN

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Afghan Taekwondo champion Marzieh Hamidi has become a champion for equal rights for Afghan women.

The 21-year-old refugee now lives under police protection in Paris .

She was removed from the competition for making a "political protest" against the Taliban 's ban on women’s sport.

She calls for Afghan sports teams to be banned from the Olympics , following bans on South Africa during the apartheid era.

Hamidi is relentlessly harassed by Taliban sympathizers for her defiance against their chokehold on the rights of Afghan women.

The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to CNN that an investigation has been launched into the threats.

Hamidi has received calls and messages from numbers across Europe , with many written in English .

“They want to make us invisible in Afghanistan ,” she said.

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