Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 19, 2020 By Freshta Jalalzai Five years ago — on March 19, 2015 — a 27-year-old Afghan woman was beaten and burned alive in the very heart of Kabul by a mob of angry men. Hundreds of people watched the killing of Farkhunda Malikzada, a student of the Koran and Islamic
Washington Post: Everyone knows that a young woman named Farkhunda was attacked outside the shrine after being falsely accused of burning a Koran, then dragged along the river road by a frenzied mob that bludgeoned and stoned her to death, ran her over with a car and set her body on fire. The white obelisk, unveiled
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 17, 2016 Hundreds of Afghans have taken to the streets in Kabul to commemorate the death anniversary of a woman killed by a mob. In March last year, a Kabul mob brutally attacked 27-year-old Farkhunda Malikzada outside a shrine in the Afghan capital, after one of the men in the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 10, 2016 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Afghanistan’s justice system over the case of a woman beaten to death by a mob last year. In a statement on March 10, HRW said the system had bitterly failed Farkhunda Malikzada when it cut the sentences of the 13 men convicted