Afghan Protesters Demand Justice for Woman Killed by Mob
(the attack on this woman was FILMED--and NOBODY intervened to help her!!)
Afghan Protesters Demand Justice for Woman Killed by Mob
Hundreds of Afghan protesters marched to the nation’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob last week after being falsely accused of burning pages from the Quran.
**********The attack on the woman, a 27-year-old named Farkhunda, was recorded on video by bystanders and widely shared online.********* As extremely graphic images of the woman being kicked and hit with sticks and rocks circulated on social networks, Afghan rights advocates and the authorities appealed for help in identifying the men who had taken part in her killing.
At the protest on Tuesday, Pajhwok Afghan News reported, the demonstrators demanded that the attackers be arrested and chanted criticism of the police because in the footage officers could be seen failing to stop the assault. According to Tolo News, a Kabul broadcaster, Afghanistan’s interior minister, Noor-ul-Haq Ulumi, told Parliament on Monday that there was no evidence that the woman had desecrated Islam’s holy book. “Farkhunda was innocent and all the accusations against her were untrue,” he said.
As The Associated Press reported, the victim’s father, Mohammed Nadir, said that the attack stemmed from a dispute between Farkhunda, an observant Muslim scholar, and a cleric who sold amulets at the Shah-Do Shamshera shrine in central Kabul. After the young woman criticized the selling of charms, the cleric responded by making the false accusation that she had burned the Quran, and she was brutally assaulted by men enraged by her supposed blasphemy.
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