March 17, 2016
Afghanistan's Supreme Court has confirmed a 20-year prison sentence against a man who falsely accused a woman of burning the Koran, which provoked an angry mob to beat the woman to death near a Muslim shrine in Kabul.
The court also confirmed prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years against 12 others involved in the brutal mob killing of Farkhunda Malikzada, a 27-year-old student of Islamic law, in March 2015.
The Supreme Court rulings -- the final stage of the appeals process in the Afghan courts -- were confirmed on March 7 by Basir Azizi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's attorney general.
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