Nafisa

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Targeted Killing
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

    Unknown

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Unknown

  • Province of birth:

    Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif

  • Gender:

    Female

  • Ethnicity:

    Hazara

  • Education:

    Bachelor's degree

  • Date of the main incident:

    April 02, 2022

  • Place of the main incident:

    Mazar-e shari city

Incident description

A young girl named Nafisa was brutally tortured and killed by the Taliban. They shot her 12 times. Nafisa was a midwife who worked at the Ali Choupan clinic. On April 2, 2022, she was going home from work with her sister's child and a male colleague. At a checkpoint, the Taliban asked her what her relationship was to the man she was with. When she said that he was a colleague, the Taliban questioned why she was in the same car as a non-mahram. Then, they tortured and killed her.

Alleged type of harm

  • Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
  • Psychological costs: Faces traumas and anxiety
  • Psychological costs: Have been otherwise mentally, emotionally and psychologically harmed and affected
  • Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
  • Human costs: Killed

Alleged type of crimes

  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Torture
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • Crime against humanity: Murder

Nafisa

Incident geolocation

  • Province:

    Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif

  • Latitude:

    36.6940040349316

  • Longitude:

    67.1132463131472

Witness/Survivor Statement

No statement