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[Title], was born in [year of birth], in [village/town if available], [province]. [Title] was a/an [profession] and belonged to the [etnicity] community. [Title] was killed on [date of incident] in [place of incident], [province of incident].

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Incident description

Farkhunda Malekzadeh, who is usually called Farkhunda in the media, was a 27-year-old woman who was publicly lynched by hundreds of angry men in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on March 19, 2015. A large crowd in the streets around her in Shahe Do Shamshera claimed that she had burned the Quran, and for this reason, her accusers declared that they should immediately "send her to hell".

Source

https://www.bbc.com/persian/indepth/farkhunda_special_page

Afghan War Casualty Report: June 28-July 4, Fahim Abed, New York Times,

Alleged type of harm

11

  • Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
  • Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
  • Human costs: Injured
  • Human costs: Killed

Alleged type of crimes

11

  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Torture
  • War crime: Wilful killing

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