What the records say
- When
- 19 Mar 2015
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 34.53° N, 69.18° E
- Description
- femicide by lynching occurred in Kabul on March 19, 2015
Murder of Farkhunda Malikzada
2015 public lynching of an Afghan woman in Kabul
The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a Muslim mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015. Malikzada, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, had been involved in an argument with a street vendor over his practice of selling amulets when he publicly accused her of burning the Quran, attracting a large group of people from the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque.
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