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"Arrests after woman beaten, set ablaze in Afghanistan"

By Greg Botelho and Masoud Popalzai 

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/20/asia/afghanistan-woman-killed/index.html

On Thusday, April 19^th, 2015, an Afghan woman was brutally abused and burned alive in Kabul. She was dragged onto a roof and hit with a stick, while many angry, screaming men surrounded her and started beating her. A video was released, showing the woman’s face covered in blood, before she is pushed to the floor and beaten with rocks, boards, and kicked multiple times. In the last part of the video, it shows her being engulfed in flames. It is not known for sure whether or not she was alive during the time she was put on fire. The reasoning behind this horrific and inhumane act was due to the assumption that she had burned the Quran. CNN says they have not seen any proof that she had done such a thing; Afghanistan’s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs found no evidence either.

Nahid, a 45 year old woman, was a witness to what happened. She said she heard a group of women and the victim yelling at each other, which got the attention of men nearby. Police tried to keep everything under control and closed the gates to keep them out, but it did not work, as the men jumped the fence and started beating the woman. The physical abuse ended once one of the men poured fuel on the woman and lit her on fire. After they burned her, they threw her corpse away in the Kabul River.

On Saturday, 11 men were arrested in connection to the death of the woman, but the investigation is still ongoing. The President spoke up and assured that his government is meant to protect and safeguard all Islamic values, including prohibitions of burning the Quran, if that is even what the woman did. But he continued on to say that judging this was the job of the nation’s security and legal system and not the job of citizens. "No individual is allowed to make oneself a judge and use violence to punish others in degrading manners," the President said. "Launching personal trials and choosing who to punish stands in clear contradiction to Sharia and Islamic justice."