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Murder of Farkhunda Malikzada. Farkhunda Malikzada, [ 1 ] commonly referred to as Farkhunda, was a 27-year-old woman who was publicly lynched by a mob in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015. A large crowd formed in the streets around her claiming that she had burned the Quran, and for that, her accusers announced that she must ...
Jesse V. Spielman (as a lookout) The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the ...
90 minutes. Country. United States. Bread and Roses is a 2023 American documentary film about women in Afghanistan and the role of the Taliban. It was directed and produced by Sahra Mani. It was co-produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi for their company Excellent Cadaver after Lawrence saw news coverage of the 2021 Taliban ...
August 13, 2024 at 6:09 AM. ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces traded cross-border fire near a key northwestern crossing, killing a woman and two children on the Afghan side of ...
The Taliban had set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” after seizing power in 2021. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices ...
Freshta Kohistani (1991 – 24 December 2020) was an Afghan Tajik woman's rights activist and a pro-democracy advocate, who had frequently spoken against a wave of assassinations in Afghanistan. She was herself assassinated at the age of 29. [1] Kohistani frequently organised events in the capital, Kabul, advocating women's rights in ...
In March 2015, a 27-year-old Afghan woman was murdered by a mob in Kabul over false allegations of burning a copy of the Qur'an. [8] After beating and kicking Farkhunda Malikzada, the mob threw her over a bridge, set her body on fire and threw it in the river. [9]
The taekwondo Paralympian made history in 2021 in Tokyo, becoming the first Afghan woman to compete in an international sporting event since the Taliban took back control of her country as U.S ...