Four women’s rights activists killed in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are masters again. It is the latest story that comes from in Mazar-i-Sharif, in the north of the country. The Taliban authorities announced the capture of two suspects for the killing of the four activists found dead two days ago in a house in the Khalid bin Walid area, as reported by the Afghan newspaper Hasht and Subh.
According to the Ministry of the Interior of the Taliban government, the two people arrested have confessed. Among the four activists killed, there is the professor of Economics Frozan Safi, 29, of whom there has been no news since October 20, as the Guardian wrote, reporting the complaint of his sister Rita.
THEY DREAMED OF LEAVING AFGHANISTAN.
Civil society sources cited by BBC Persian, as reported by the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, claim that they were friends and colleagues and that they had hoped to reach Mazar-i-Sharif airport to leave Afghanistan, back in the hands of the Taliban. Two suspects have been caught, as confirmed by spokesman for the Taliban government’s interior ministry, Qari Saeed Khosti, in a video statement reported by Dawn in which the victims are not identified, but it is claimed that four bodies were found in a house. by Mazar-i-Sharif. “The people arrested confessed that the women had been invited into the house by them – he said – Further investigations are underway”.
FROZAN SAFI RECOGNIZED BY CLOTHES
“We recognized her from her clothes – said Rita, Frozan Safi’s sister – Her face was devastated by bullets”. And “gunshot wounds everywhere, too many to count, in the head, heart, chest, kidneys, legs”. At the end of October, the newspaper reconstructs, Frozan had received a phone call from an anonymous number and the suggestion to gather evidence of his commitment to defending rights and to move to a safe place. He had believed in a new life in Germany. According to his father, Abdul Rahman Safi, Frozan’s body was found in a grave not far from the city.
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