In March, a 27-year-old woman was brutally killed by a mob of men in the center of Kabul. Lawyers appointed by Afghanistan’s president have called for a retrial. The five-person panel found that the original trial — and the subsequent reversal of many of the sentences it handed down — represented a miscarriage of justice.
A Panel Orders A Retrial In The Brutal Mob-killing Of An Afghan Woman
Beenish Ahmed, Think Progress
Fri, 08/14/2015 - 5:55am
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