
The lynching of an Islamic student, Farkhunda Malikzada, from 2015 was falsely shared as a related incident after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
The original incident was reported in December 2015 when a young woman named Farkhunda Malikzada was killed by an angry mob in central Kabul, accused of burning the Quran inside a Muslim shrine. The video of the assault was viral on social media, and the incident was widely condemned internationally.
In a conference on August 24, 2021, Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban's spokesperson, advised women not to go to work for their safety as the Taliban "keep changing and are not trained" despite assuring the previous week about respecting women right under their regime.
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