Model accused of ‘putting Instagram posturing before universal human rights’ after now-deleted post

Lily Cole has apologised for posting a photograph online in which she is wearing a burqa as part of an attempt to promote her new book.

The model and activist was criticised for posting in the same week as Kabul fell to the Taliban, raising fears for women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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