Afghan protesters demand justice for woman killed by mob
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Hundreds of Afghans protested in Kabul on Monday to demand justice for a woman who was killed by a mob outside one of the capital's most famous mosques, after falsely being accused of burning a Quran.
The woman, a 27-year-old religious scholar named Farkhunda, was beaten, pushed from a roof, run over by a car and set alight before her body was thrown in the Kabul River last Thursday. Senior police officials have since maintained that the Quran-burning allegations that prompted the attack were false.
She was buried amid a huge public outcry on Sunday, her coffin carried by women's activists.
Protesters who gathered near the Shah Doshamshera mosque on Monday demanded the government prosecute all those responsible for the death of Farkhunda, who like many Afghans used only one name.
