an hour ago29-year-old women's rights activist killed in Afghanistan
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(5 years ago)The 29-year-old activist and economics teacher from Afghanistan, Frozan Safi, has been shot dead in the northern part of this state. This appears to be the first known death of a women's rights activist since the Taliban came to power about three months ago. Safe's body was identified in [...]
Safet's body was identified at a morgue in the town of Mazar-i-Sahar, after the new one disappeared on October 20th. We met through our clothes. The bullets had destroyed her face”, said her sister Rita, who is a doctor.
There were bullet wounds everywhere, many to be counted, on the head, on the heart, on the chest, on the kidney and foot”, Rita said, adding that the victim was taken by engagement rings and bags, writes The Guardian.
On Thursday, Taliban security forces were brought to the provincial hospital in Balkh by the bodies of two unidentified women who had been shot to death. They were found near the bodies of two men in a house in Mazar-i-Sharif, said Zaabidullah Noorani, director of information and cultural affairs of the Taliban in the province of Balkh. He suggested that the persons may have been victims of a “personal enemy”, but police are investigating the case.
Since August, Afghan women have regularly held protests to seek protection of their rights. Girls have been banned from middle schooling, the new government consists of only men and women being banned most sports and jobs.
